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American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today social media is such a dominant part of our daily lives, it's hard to believe that only 20 years ago, it didn’t exist. Then a newly single tech entrepreneur named Jonathan Abrams wondered: What if you could use the internet to expand your network of real-life friends? His simple idea became Friendster, the first social media site, which would change not only how people interact online, but the very nature of human connection and friendship.

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0:17.4	mobile app store today.
0:19.0	It's December 17, 2010.
0:30.3	In a small town in Tunisia, in North Africa,
0:33.3	Ali Buazizi manned the cash register of his small supermarket.
0:37.7	He hands a customer her change.
0:39.8	Thank you.
0:40.5	Have a great day.
0:42.2	Many market.
0:43.0	Ali, it's the law.
0:44.7	Have you heard?
0:45.8	Outside the government building, someone set himself on fire.
0:49.2	I'm going there right now to see if I can help.
0:51.0	What?
0:51.7	That's horrible.
0:52.8	I'll meet you there.
0:54.1	Ali hangs up the phone and turns to an assistant.
	...

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