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You're missing the precursors:
Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot... :)
The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.
As a really old person, I was thinking today the vibe was unlike anything I've felt since Fidonet ;)
Lots of similarities between Lemmy and FIDOnet. I've been saying this to anyone that will listen.
Lots of similarities between Lemmy and FIDOnet. I’ve been saying this to anyone that will listen.
If we're including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols
I never really used email socially, was always a chat or some bulltin system
Usenet! Those were the days.
IRC is STILL running to this day
Yup, and some servers are very active.
I know something like 28 thousand active daily users!
+1 you're right. Especially IRC...oh how I miss those days.
I miss that moment when I became the cool kid in the channel because I had an IRC bouncer
There are still some good communities out there. I'm still on IRC every day.
It's about the only constant over internet use from 1994 to present. IRC and E-mail. Also the web kind of, but it's changed so so much.