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A comment on Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System (2016).

Re:Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board Syste... by gaius on Sunday July 15, 2018 @12:58PM (#17536008)
many of the ... cultural practices that we now recognize as social media were first developed

I caught the tail end of BBS culture and modern internet culture is nothing like it. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17534985 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17535165 for an example

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Re:Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board Syste... by mmt on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:11PM (#17537106)
Agreed. It may be safe to compare BBS culture with Usenet culture, not least of which because Fidonet enabled so much overlap toward that tail end you mention, but the sheer ubiquity alone makes today's Internet a different situation entirely.
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