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Based on other responses here, I guess I'd be dating myself to say mine started with Usenet.

• isostatic 9y ago
  Compuserve, MSN (no not messenger), Usenet, Slashdot, Fuck Beta, Soylent, HN
  • brk 9y ago
    Prodigy. BBSes. Usenet. /.. HN. Digg. Reddit. Gave up on /. around the time cmdrtaco got married. Gave up on digg sometime before the downfall. Have stuck with HN (was fairly early here). Reddit on and off.
• Baeocystin 9y ago
  Mine was Quantum-Link.
  • tedivm 9y ago
    I used to go outside and talk to people.
    • Camillo 9y ago
      I have, to this day, never once used any kind of social media or forum, not even HN.
• tyingq 9y ago
  BBS, Fidonet, Usenet, ... Someone will oneup this too with Arpanet or similar :)
  • dbcurtis 9y ago
    I talked to the other hams in high school using Morse code and a vacuum tube transmitter. And get off my lawn. :) I've actually joked about building a Bluetooth telegraph key to make texting more concenient.
    • Someone 9y ago
      I assume you already have the Morse key USB keyboard? (https://mitxela.com/projects/morse_code_usb_keyboard_mk_ii https://mitxela.com/projects/morse_code_usb_keyboard_mk_ii)
  • pjmlp 9y ago
    PLATO
    • tyingq 9y ago
      That's exactly the sort of thing I figured would one up me. Ironically, too young to have been exposed to PLATO.
• earenndil 9y ago
  I discovered (although I still use all these platforms) IRC, reddit, usenet, HN (in that order).
• kawera 9y ago
  BBS, Compuserve, Usenet, The Well, Slashdot, MeFi...
  • samstave 9y ago
    I was grounded for a month after I ran the long distance bill to $926 calling a BBS in San Jose from Lake Tahoe. We put in a Warez bbs on the north Lake Tahoe cad server. Fun times