Categories: Social Media

Experience Today’s Social Media Services If Available In 1997

You’re on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and all the other social networking services, and it’s moving fast. Messages, tweets and updates fly through your screen like a stock market ticker giving you constant news about how your brand or personal feed is doing. The reasons why people get burned out are not too hard to understand when they stay on these services 24/7 while still working their butts off trying to make their brand or company successful. After all, you need to expand and develop the reason you are on these networks in the first place. It’s a challenge, and more than enough people get burned out to the level where they actually quit using social networking services all together.

So was it easier to network in the old days? Is it the speed of our Internet connections that has lead to people burning themselves out so fast, or is it because they are trying to haul in too much information into their brains? It could be, but it’s of course different from person to person and how they use the social networking services. If today’s services had been available back in 1997, then what? What would they look like? Would things have been a lot slower then? Surely!

This retro view of yesterday’s implementation of today’s social networking services comes from the brilliant minds of Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied. It’s a creative look at what we could have had back then, and how fortunate we are to have what we are able to use today. You have to notice the awesome detail that we would have used the Netscape Navigator to do all our browsing since that is just how it was back then. Retro social networking, why hasn’t anyone come up with that yet? Check out Olia’s and Dragan’s website to get the full experience!

Via: [Geekosystem]

Richard Darell

Richard Darell is the founder and CEO of Bit Rebels, a multifaceted online news outlet that reports daily on the latest developments in technology, social media, design and everything geek. Today this media entity welcomes more than 3.5 million unique visitors per month and is considered the go-to place for people in constant motion. As an Internet entrepreneur, he is dedicated to constantly trying to develop new ways to bring content faster and closer to the end user in a more streamlined way. His excitement for statistics has allowed him to further develop systems that continuously produce accurate and fast-paced analytics to better optimize the approach by which Bit Rebels presents news and content. His graphic design background has proven to be an important tool when designing new systems and features for Bit Rebels since the development of solid and stable code depends entirely on their structure and implemented procedures. Richard currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden and directs the Bit Rebels offices in both Stockholm and Atlanta. You can reach Richard at richard@bitrebels.com

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