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Social information processing

  • FacebookIn January 2004, Mark Zuckerberg coded a new site known as TheFacebook while attending Harvard University. He met with Harvard student Eduardo Saverin, and…
  • WikipediaOn the 15th of January 2001, the domain name www.wikipedia.com went live for the first time. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger had launched a project to…
  • Social networkIn the late 1890s, Émile Durkheim and Ferdinand Tönnies began laying the theoretical groundwork for what would become social network analysis.
  • Big dataIn 1997, a researcher named John Mashey began using the phrase big data to describe datasets that were too large for standard software tools.