Andy Baio20 years ago today.
Also 20 years ago this week, on March 17, 2006, Ze Frank posted the first episode of The Show. https://youtu.be/VxyiRMcNIVo
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Ze Frank's The Show was self-hosted QuickTime videos on a blog with comments and an RSS feed. A community forum, wiki, and series of interactive web pages tied it all together. Social media was a bunch of blogs linking to each other. Facebook opened to everyone in September of that year, Google bought YouTube in November, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in January 2007. Twitter blew up at SXSW in March and iPhone came out in June, the beginning of the end for the dominant open social web.
Evan Prodromou@andybaio remember when Ze Frank joined Twitter and said "We should have a Color War here like at summer camp" and it burned up Twitter for like a week and a half?
@andybaio he spoke at a conference called NXNE in Toronto that I was also speaking at (about distributed social networks) and he talked about what an amazing high it is to get viral growth on the Internet, and how once it happens you're always going to be chasing it for one more big score, and it really hit home.