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
@dxciBel @randomdent ICQ was the first instant messaging protocol ... app ... thing.
グレェ「grey」@aurynn ICQ was most certainly not the first instant messaging app. Easily predated by (n/y/u)talk, further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)
Also, it could be argued that rwall could be (ab)used by sysadmins for such things in a one way manner, but don't find out the hard way as jkd did! [further reading on the "rwall incident" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Hubbard])
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