The Data Explosion | The History of the Internet, Part 3

Nearly twenty years after the dot-com bubble burst, the internet is an essential piece of the modern world, with the public side mostly commanded by a few powerful companies.

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[simogene]

I met my husband on Geocities in 1996... <3 ah memories...

[jcortese]

You know you're officially old when all the 90s shit he described feels like it happened just last week.

[ms.deluxe]

theirs also the whole issue with Echo chambers on social media, people trapped in personalized bubbles of information who are susceptible to being tricked into believing things that are untrue, purely because it appeals to their beliefs

[SerunaXI]

Man, of all the stuff talked about in this, it's the bits about the algorithm affecting or guiding moods and flow of information that ended up being the most important.

[levihowell]

I just realized that I trust Hank and John with my donations more than any other organization. I always look to see how many cents on the dollar go to the actual cause, but with you guys I just assume is 110%

[MirorRflction]

The key to using sorting algorithms on social media sites is to let users:
1. Know what factors it considers
2. Know when it is active
3. Have a way to disable it

[cOmAtOrAn]

I feel confident in predicting that cat videos will never die.

[noahfeller]

Please make these more often. This is my favorite SciShow show

[jamesforbes]

Good content. I am surprised that AOL was not mentioned. It had a huge impact on people connecting to the internet for the first time; myself included.

[JohnPaul-cryh]

Thank u guys. I really enjoyed the series

[hotdrippyglass]

Thank You Michael and crew. You folks are changing the world.

[freemanaccount]

Scishow, you should talk about Linux and BSD in relation to computer security. Many people dont know about them, and they have become more user accessable than ever before

[Furiends]

GeoCitities was a social networking site. Social networking today in the larger sites is primarily focused on showing personal info and advertiser friendly content like compulsory games and "location check in" features whereas a social networking like GeoCities is now rare where the focus is about anyone being able to create web content about anything not just about themselves or in a constricting "profile" easy for data mining. The two big primary turns for social media after GeoCities was blogging which you can clearly see in Twitter and Facebooks makeup and less obvious is the profiling and data mining model actually comes from dating websites. So today we have social media hyper focused on vanity blogging and having an appealing dating profile that anyone can stalk instead of social media being focused on connecting people with common interests and giving them creative tools for expression that defined GeoCities albeit on an earlier web.

[TheDanyschannel]

Great Video series! Keep them coming with different topics!

[LeonardoGarcia-opox]

This guy is better presenter than other guys who were 1st and 2nd parts.

[thgamer]

Great video! Loving the channel the last few weeks keep it up!

[hashbeatzz]

This video reproduces a common misconception about the Facebook emotional contagion experiment. The Facebook experiment did not show that adjusting people's news feeds STRONGLY affected anything. In fact, the Cohen's D effect sizes were NEGLIGIBLY SMALL (between .001 and .02). The only reason it was statistically significant was because it was such a massive sample size.

On top of that, what was being measured were numbers of emotionally valenced words posted by the subjects--hardly a measure of mood.

This study was ridiculously overblown.

[danafowler]

I have learned more watching this series than I did in an entire semester of college level digital technologies class

[storylineOfMadness]

yeey, relevance selection for specific person :) made such stuff for my diploma project(it was pretty simple ofc), all this series brings up the nostalgic memories from the past days! greetings for all Computer Science guys and girls out there! :)

[paranor]

you think 56K is slow? my 1st modem was a 300baud coupler.

even at 2400baud you could keep up with reading the incoming data.