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I remember the term social network being used in the BBS era. Sure, maybe it wasn’t called like that all the time, but it’s not a term from the 2010s either?
by herval 6y ago
I remember the term social network being used in the BBS era. Sure, maybe it wasn’t called like that all the time, but it’s not a term from the 2010s either?
- orev 6y agoThe BBS era (and the setting of HCF) was in the 1980s and 1990s. The term “social media” was first used in 1997 as a reference to AOL. What we call a “social network” today as a concept simply didn’t exist back then. You can say a BBS was sort of like a social network, but that is retroactively applying a label that just didn’t exist at the time.