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I guess we're talking WWW or Web 2.0 or HTTP(S) or whatever (ie. bloat). Cu2 was a Dutch predecessor of Hyves which were both a very popular social network in T
by Fnoord 8y ago
I guess we're talking WWW or Web 2.0 or HTTP(S) or whatever (ie. bloat). Cu2 was a Dutch predecessor of Hyves which were both a very popular social network in The Netherlands before the existence of MySpace and Facebook. Eventually, "everyone" went to Facebook though.
Both were colorful (think: IRC on DALnet, or MySpace). It was awful.
The thing is, social networks existed before the term was ever coined. They were just called your "network". Getting to know people was called "networking". And most people get a job through their "network". It is nothing new. Something like Usenet or IRC or a MUD just as well fits.
- atupis 8y agoFinland we still have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC-Galleria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC-Galleria and it was pretty popular.
- marapuru 8y agoAh CU2, the memories. It's a while ago. One of the interesting things there is that it actually made people aware of technology. You had to learn some HTML (for horrible purposes though), you had to read urls. Maybe it wasn't always for the good (eye bleeding color schemes for example). But I'm sure a lot of people learned the basics of HTMl through those types of websites.
- all2 8y agoMyspace served a similar purpose for later generations. It did for me, anyway. There were still terrible color choices, and scrolling text, and flashing text, and glitter that followed your mouse cursor...
- aerique 8y agoA friend of mine knew the guy (one of the guys?) who was creating Cu2 at the time and we as nerds were laughing at it like: "You can't be serious, who would want to use this?!". Same with startpagina.nl, a really basic portal that eventually was sold for a lot of money. Or as Bill Hicks used to say: "Boy, do I NOT have my finger on the pulse of America."