diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7b5f656..f07e808 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -48,6 +48,17 @@ The era: 2010 to 2018 The era: 2007 to 2010 +**Show in a Box**, often initialized to as “**SIAB**”, was the first open-source social-media software for video. + +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. +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. + +A popular **decentralized** social-media network, in this era, was what was then called the **blogosphere** — the 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**”. +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**”. + ## Vloggercon ## Vlog