random dentwhat was your first social network?
(plz boost for sample size) 
bbs/fidonet
usenet/mailing lists
irc
myspace
fb/tw/ig & later
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Aurynn Shaw@randomdent voted for IRC, but it was ICQ that really started it for me
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@aurynn @randomdent is icq based on irc? i used it when i was 6 to send my brother keyboard smashes and then forgot about it so i never learned mich about how it works
グレェ「grey」@dxciBel ICQ (protocol: OSCAR) is not based on IRC, no, sorry. AIM used it for their walled garden, further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol @aurynn @randomdent