And yet, some things are eerily familiar. In 1999 online life was dominated for non-geeks by AOL. In 2014 replace AOL with Facebook and the dynamic is pretty mu

And yet, some things are eerily familiar. In 1999 online life was dominated for non-geeks by AOL. In 2014 replace AOL with Facebook and the dynamic is pretty much the same. The difference is that AOL had to spend a fortune to produce or acquire content. Facebook gets us to do that for free.