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1903 - The Wright Brothers finally solve the mystery of flight for human beings

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Then we learned to fly in formation.
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2006 - Twitter is founded.
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Between 1903 and 2006 is a century during which apes aspired to become birds, a hybridization that goes back to our mythology.
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If we take the name of Twitter literally, we see it as the communication of a flock, announcing their location, status, territory, thoughts, somewhat arbitrarily. Like sparrows in a tree, communicating to the networked host.

In other words, one of the great projects of Western humanity over the past one hundred years was to become birdlike, as opposed to apelike. For whatever reason. 
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