alt Hacker NewsThis really seems like the exception that proves the rule, given how few Facebooks came out of that era. We had a social contract, but it turned out that being sociopathic is a winning strategy when everyone else is playing by the implicit rules. See also: modern politics.
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mopsi • yesterday at 4:20 PM
Indeed. The 2004 chat snippet is notable because it displayed attitude that was uncommon at the time. Zuck made it mainstream.
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The dominant business model that decade was monetization via getting people to fork over their data.
That's basically what Web 2.0 was.