Secret History of Social Networking
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Secret History of Social Networking
It's a phenomenon which seems to have come from nowhere, but in fact computer-based social networks have been around for decades. In this three-part series the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones traces the hidden story of social networking, from the early days of computing and the 60s...
Recent Episodes
4 episodes
shsn: Life After Facebook 9 Feb 11
Rory Cellan-Jones looks at the social networking sites of the future and asks where the phenomenon is heading.
New sites are springing...
shsn: Friends in High Places 2 Feb 11
Rory Cellan-Jones tells the story of the social networking scramble of the early 2000s and finds out how Facebook emerged to become world's biggest so...
shsn: Hippies and Hackers 26 Jan 11
Rory Cellan-Jones traces the roots of social networking from the counterculture of the 70s through early bulletin boards and the first networks on the...
shsn: Welcome
Welcome to this new BBC podcast. If you subscribe to the podcast feed, you should receive the first episode of this series automatically within the ne...