Richard MacManus

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Cybercultural is a website covering internet history and the evolution of digital culture.

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2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web

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Following in Amazon's footsteps, two student projects independently use 'collaborative filtering' to bring recommendations and social networking to online music; soon they will join forces.

GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet

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GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, is one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy for people to publish a home page on the World Wide Web.