27 Nov 2017
Kapitalet: “The Swede behind the world's first social network”
The business podcast Kapitalet devotes an episode to Rickard: from the BBS and the Björn Borg server to PRO and 1.2 million active users. “The world's first social network.”
What I did with Lunarstorm … I didn't invent anything new at all, I digitised analogue needs that have always existed.
- Episode 40, 28 minutes; reported by Gunnar Harrius.
- Rickard on the party host: at a party he watches how people group together, and who needs a new neighbour on the sofa for the conflict to disappear.
- On what Facebook lacks: “you met new people on Lunarstorm, you don't do that on Facebook.” The Facebook feature he would most have liked to bring back to 2001: tagging friends in pictures.
- The proudest moment: when Nationalencyklopedin wrote an entry. “That's when it became real”.
Sources: Kapitalet #40: Svensken bakom världens första sociala nätverk