The wired Wild West

• Autores: Bob Holmes
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2948-2949, 2013, págs. 76-77
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • LONG before Facebook or Twitter, there was a different kind of social network. Born in the Old West, it allowed communities to share updates and music, and to spread news and gossip. For a brief period at the start of the 20th century this network, owned by no one, was a model of democracy, openness and free speech--something that today's Internet activists can only dream about. Eventually, though, it faded, overwhelmed by commercially minded competitors. This is the story of a long-forgotten social revolution and the extremely unlikely technology it was built on: barbed wire. Here, Holmes discusses how personalized ringtones, chat rooms, and cowpokes--19th-century ranchers pioneered social networking.