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@ -48,17 +48,29 @@ The era: 2010 to 2018
The era: 2007 to 2010 The era: 2007 to 2010
**Show in a Box**, often initialized to as “**SIAB**”, was the first open-source social-media software for video. Back then, video on the Internet and the Web was just starting to be practical — it wasn't before.
**Show in a Box**, often initialized to as “**SIAB**”, was the first open-source social-media software for video — and it was **decentralized** social-media software.
In this era, both _decentralized_ social-media networks and _centralized_ social-media networks were popular. In this era, both _decentralized_ social-media networks and _centralized_ social-media networks were popular.
MySpace was a popular _centralized_ social-media network in this era — it had a lot to do with why another _centralized_ social-media network, YouTube, initially got popular. The centralized social-media network Twitter was _not_ popular yet, and was just getting started — at the time it was mainly populated by very early adopters.
Although, back then, YouTube was mainly used as a way of sharing videos on MySpace — because it was the only free video hosting website that supported playing video in (a non defunct technology known as) Flash. MySpace was the popular _centralized_ social-media network in this era — it had a lot to do with why another _centralized_ social-media network, YouTube, initially got popular.
Although, back then, YouTube was mainly used as a way of sharing videos on MySpace (as an embed on MySpace) — because it was the only free video hosting website that supported playing video in (a non defunct technology known as) Flash.
MySpace's decline later led to the rise of yet another cenralized social-media network: Facebook.
A popular **decentralized** social-media network, in this era, was what was then called the **blogosphere** — the network of **weblogs** (often shorterned as “blogs“). A popular **decentralized** social-media network, in this era, was what was then called the **blogosphere** — the distributed network of **weblogs** (often shorterned as “blogs“).
Although during this era, there was still some debate (that began in the late 1990s) over whether to call these “**web-logs**”, or “**web-journals**”, or “**web-diaries**”. Although during this era, there was still some debate (that began in the late 1990s) over whether to call these “**web-logs**”, or “**web-journals**”, or “**web-diaries**”.
As the story goes — “**web-log**” won, got concatenated as “**weblog**”, someone (not knowing “**weblog**” = “**web**” + “**log**”) thought it was a concatenation for “**we**” + “**blog**” and shortened it to “**blog**”. As the story goes — “**web-log**” won, got concatenated as “**weblog**”, someone (not knowing “**weblog**” = “**web**” + “**log**”) thought it was a concatenation for “**we**” + “**blog**” and shortened it to “**blog**”.
Many people had wanted to do **video** over the Internet, and then the Web for years (if not decades).
As **blogs** rose as a popular form of social-media, some people wanted to do **video** over **blogs**.
A community was formed around this idea via a mailing-list — the **VideoBlogging Mailing List**.
The mailing-list attracted many people interested in video on the Internet and the Web.
A conference related to the **VideoBlogging Mailing List** mailing-list was created — Vloggercon.
(More on that later.)
## Vloggercon ## Vloggercon
## Vlog ## Vlog