Ahead of their time…
Move over tweens and Gen Yers. Electronic engineers were involved in the social networking world long before you had your first Sidekick or profile on MySpace. Back in the day, “social networking” was how engineers shared ideas and helped one another out via the Internet. In an article published this week on EE Times, Junko Yoshida looks at how these online communities have morphed over the years and are still providing intrinsic value to their users.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:20 am
Not sure that I’d consider FTP a mechanism for social networking- may as well as include Telnet into the mix. But I do miss the days of cryptic unix commands to navigate and “surf” the net. Definitely a more exclusive club in those days.