Dan GillmorA reminder that there is NOTHING Musk can do that will prompt journalists to stop supporting his business.
Disgusting on his part, as usual.
But disgraceful on their part.
Posted this again on the deadbird site:
Standing offer for journalists: I'll help you get set up on Mastodon and will help you bring your Twitter audience along (and find new followers and rich engagement there). All I ask is that you migrate -- over time, not instantly -- your social media activity there.
william.maggoswe should put together an official Fedi Welcoming Committee. help start servers. talk them through stuff. did anything like that exist in the days of the early web?
Dragon-sided Dbut what got most people from just using AOL to browsing the web? I can't remember.
Paul Chambers🚧@wjmaggos @dragonsidedd @dangillmor
Major killer was DSL. You no longer needed AOL to log into the internet. You were always on
It took a couple years but by 2000 people were using the open internet through various browsers. People learned they didn't need a spoonfed corporate service to access the content. MSN died around the same time DSL was available~ same with Prodigy/Juno. Then, cable came
Here's hoping that happens with the fediverse versions of corp. social media and other platforms
@paul @wjmaggos @dangillmor Yeah thinking on it now... you're right, it was always-on DSL/cable that killed AOL.
AOL/CompuServe were about "getting online". Suddenly we (at least, our household PCs) were *always* online. No gate, no gatekeeper.
A History of AOL, as Told in Its Own Old Press Releases
Twenty-five years ago today, a company named Quantum Computer Services rose from the ashes of a failed startup called Control Video Corporation. It launched a dial-up online service for the Commodore 64 which eventually spread to Macs and PCs--one that became a lot better known after it was renamed
@wjmaggos @dragonsidedd @dangillmor
I was a Usenet holdout. Lol
The Time Warner merge killed everything it touched.
They had all the tech but screwed the migration from being a telecom dialup service to portal/service of all things.
Also, those numbers seem low until you consider each dialup subscriber had multiple family members users. At its peak, nearly half the US population used it to get on the internet
@paul @wjmaggos @dangillmor
> Usenet
Sometimes I uuencode my pr0n, just for old times' sake