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Know about 16th century Facebook

New Delhi: The idea of creating networks of members and sharing information dates back to the 16th century.Italian Academie  saw young scholars create nicknames for themselves and develop emblems and mottoes to form groups with



This fact was discovered  during a £1,130,000 collaborative research project between Royal Holloway, the British Library and Reading University, in which a team of academics are cataloguing and investigating the works of the Italian Academies, dating from 1525 to 1700.

The project provides information about the academies, their members, publications, activities and emblems.








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