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Ideas are a dime a dozen, execution and luck are what matters. Twitter in various forms was done about 5 times (that I saw) before the Twitter came up. Quite a
by beagle3 12y ago
Ideas are a dime a dozen, execution and luck are what matters.
Twitter in various forms was done about 5 times (that I saw) before the Twitter came up. Quite a few social networks predated Facebook.
- twic 12y agoI proposed a user-edited online encyclopedia in 1996, while working at the New Scientist. Everyone agreed it would never work, so the idea wasn't pursued. Two years later, Everything launched, a year after that, H2G2, and two years after that, Wikipedia.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoWard's wiki launched in 1995 (or 1994, depending on how you count), actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb
- minikites 12y agoThere was "Community Memory" in Berkeley in the 70s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory
- rcfox 12y agoDon't forget timing. Netflix and Youtube probably wouldn't have been successful in the early 2000s just due to bandwidth limitations.
- waps 12y agoDidn't Netflix have what every other service was missing ? Netflix had a deal that they could stream whatever they had on DVDs for a fixed price. So they had boatloads of streamable content, which was the major stumbling block of everything else.