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<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> In that case I don't understand your previous email. What was the<br>
"problem" that "geeks" solved for you in the late 90s?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm sorry, reading my e-mail back it is ambiguous:</div><div><br></div><div>> For me, geeks already solved this problem in the late 90s. </div>
<div><br></div><div>What I'm saying is that the solution to this problem is already a solved problem. You can do this today with open technologies with previously created protocols. </div><div><br></div><div>My friends and I actually ran this set-up during the early 00s. We all had our own blogs with RSS and that's how we did things in Widnes. My site still exists (it's just never hit! :) )</div>
<div><br></div><div>Then Facebook delivered an application that had a much better fit and finish and everyone went there. Me included, eventually.</div><div><br></div><div>Even though the 00s stuff wasn't as good a user it experience, it did fundamentally work and is more free than tying yourself to a particular provider. Even the free solutions like Diaspora.</div>
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