The 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 ne

The 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.