Richard MacManus on Nostr: What we now know as the “social web” — or Web 2.0 — didn’t arrive until ...
What we now know as the “social web” — or Web 2.0 — didn’t arrive until around 2004. But the first inklings of it were emerging a couple of years before. As usual, music was the harbinger. In this week's Cybercultural, I look at the beginnings of Last.fm and Audioscrobbler.
https://cybercultural.com/p/lastfm-audioscrobbler-2002/ #InternetHistory #OnlineMusic
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