Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks
by 111111101101 on Sunday September 11, 2022 @10:37AM
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Social media existed back then it just wasn't called that. It was mainly done over email, IRC and instant messaging software.
But that's not quite right though. I think I get the sentiment, but it's not that people in 2001 weren't using socials as much as TV for news because of popularity. It was because they didn't exist yet. That's like saying that in 2001 the ratio of smart phone users to dumb phone/land line users were inverted compared to today, but yet smart phones weren't a thing then so it's not a good inversion comparison.