Peter EllisNov 18, 2022

#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: international who-is-who

Sometimes I dream about one day writing the definitive history of the early #Hungarian internet era, a project so clearly beyond my knowledge and abilities that it's never going to happen.

But what I can write about with some authority is what it looks like when a once ubiquitous social media site is shut down completely.

Because it happened and I lived through it. [unwarranted dramatic pause]

Show threadVijay - /ʋɪd͡ʒjeɪ/Nov 18, 2022
@almostconverge Have seen several die (even if a few are still technically alive) if you're the right age in the UK - IRC then MSN messenger/ICQ/AIM then Geocities, Friends reunited, Slashdot, Digg, MySpace, Google+... Twitter was unusual in that media people found it easy and used it to broadcast personal brands in a way they hadn't before - so it became the news. Ironically, that's probably what's caused it's downfall.
Show threadPeter EllisNov 18, 2022
@VJ that's where iWiW was different, it was really really massive, i can't name a single person who had internet access but wasn't on it
Show threadVijay - /ʋɪd͡ʒjeɪ/Nov 18, 2022
@almostconverge Back in the day, instant messenger clients were like that, whilst a little more fractured there were clients that let you post to any - Trillian was my go to. Back when "asl" was the start of every conversation.
Show threadPeter Ellis
@VJ ah trillian, i remember it well
Nov 18, 2022 at 9:56pmWeb