random dentNov 30, 2022

what was your first social network?

(plz boost for sample size)

bbs/fidonet
24%
usenet/mailing lists
22.3%
irc
24.3%
myspace
14.4%
fb/tw/ig & later
15%
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Show threadCatbusNov 30, 2022
@randomdent local BBS's
Show threadrandom dentNov 30, 2022
@ancient_catbus that would be fidonet then? or was that before bbs-es exchanged messages through fidonet?
Show threadCatbusNov 30, 2022
@randomdent these were stand-alone servers hosted by one person
Show threadSander DatemaDec 1, 2022
@ancient_catbus @randomdent I remember being a 'point' at a BBS. The fidonet addresses looked like this: 1:170/918.10. The 10 is the point, the 918 would be the BBS. That was how mail was distributed. And since I didn't have a modem back then and the BBS was three doors further, I collected my mail on a floppy drive. 😂
Show threadRadio Tulsa

@sanderdatema @ancient_catbus @randomdent I was on the bbs a lot but I don't remember doing fidonet. I do remember the logo.

I think I was mostly lurking and stealing files and proto-games. I wasn't cool enough to talk to anyone over fidonet. So that made me so very much uncool.

Dec 2, 2022 at 3:42amWeb
Show threadSander DatemaDec 2, 2022
@WA5PSA @ancient_catbus @randomdent I didn't talk to a lot of people either, but Fidonet had newsgroups like the usenet we know now and I was subscribes to those.