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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 World Wide Web

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3/3 Rory Cellan-Jones asks where social networking will go in the future.

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3/3 Rory Cellan-Jones asks where social networking will go in the future.

Tue 31 May 2011 16:00 BBC Radio 4

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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...

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