It occurred to me recently that Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, and all those sorts of sites are just like GeoCities and Tripod were back in the early days of the web – in other words, filled with awful, horrible, ugly web pages that nobody wants to look at.<\/p>\n
Ah, progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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