History of social software

October 15, 2004

Life with Alacrity posts a fine history of social software. It has a commendable reach back to the early twentieth century.

The term 'social software', which is now used to define software that supports group interaction, has only become relatively popular within the last two or more years. However, the core ideas of social software itself enjoy a much longer history, running back to Vannevar Bush's ideas about 'memex' in 1945, and traveling through terms such as Augmentation, Groupware, and CSCW in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

(thanks to Ken Bolton)

October 15, 2004 at 16:11 in History of the internet | Permalink

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