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      1 year ago

      Well, back then I wouldn’t call “blogs” a platform. But that’s what helped popularize tags.

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          I don’t think so. At least not as a matter of course.

          But they did help organize content, and helped search engines as metadata. At least before (?) SEO destroyed their utility.