A Brief History of the Internet

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Can you believe the Internet has been around for over four decades? It seems like just yesterday we were listening to the beeps and crackles of dial-up and loading emails at a painful pace, but the web started smaller than we realize, and has since evolved into a massive, rapidly changing environment. New technologies abound, and for Throwback Thursday, we decided to take a look at the Internet’s greatest hits.

We present to you, a brief history of the Internet:

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11 Social Media Features We WISH Existed

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As professional social media fanatics, we at Metter Media spend a LOT of time online. Because of that, it should come as no surprise we have plenty of ideas that could make our (and everyone else’s) experiences better on social networking.

Sometimes that article about the new iPhone could really use a Macarena baby GIF — that Facebook won’t allow. Or you get a Twitter notification on your phone that you can’t read because someone sharing the account already opened it and it disappeared before your very eyes. And it’s beyond frustrating.

In the midst of scheduling posts, sharing cat pictures, and lightheartedly making fun of each other, the MM team came up with our top social media gripes that we’d love to see solutions to — soon.

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