but then I noticed that the article is dated April/May 2003
It's amazing how much has changed in the past 5 years. The web has definitely moved into a more social direction - message boards aren't a place where you post, they're a place you hang out. The 'net is morphing into a social environment, not completely unlike the one those envisioned in fiction [1] just 15 years ago.
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but then I noticed that the article is dated April/May 2003
It's amazing how much has changed in the past 5 years. The web has definitely moved into a more social direction - message boards aren't a place where you post, they're a place you hang out. The 'net is morphing into a social environment, not completely unlike the one those envisioned in fiction [1] just 15 years ago.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse