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How Facebook Helped Change the Tech World

posted by robind on Thursday February 13 2014, @01:07AM   
from the like-this dept.

Maow writes "Wired.com has a 10th anniversary look at some of the innovations that Facebook has led, or at least been at the forefront of.

This is not about how "Likes" and "the Wall" and "Timelines" have changed how users interact with the internet and each other.

This is about open-sourced data centres, and the like:

Behind the scenes, inside the massive data centers that power this worldwide social network, you’ll find all sorts of other technologies that have changed our world in very different ways — and perhaps bigger ways.

Any good techie can appreciate the items listed or at least several of them. They are often over-looked ways that Facebook has contributed; ways that average Facebook users probably have absolutely no clue about; ways that might earn them just a bit of respect from the most die-hard Facebook haters."

• Facebook doesn't excite me (Score: 1) by janrinok on Friday February 14 2014, @05:11PM

  by janrinok (52) on Friday February 14 2014, @05:11PM (#109) Journal

  Perhaps its an age thing - but I cannot understand the excitement about Facebook. It seems strange that people find joy in publicising everything that they do, good or bad, and having it there for all to see. The additional fact the Facebook is saving all the information and that it might reappear at a later date just makes it worse. I gather that some employers actually want the details to your social media accounts when you go for a job interview. They will know what I tell them. Nothing more.

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