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That's a very tunnel vision view of the early web. You're ignoring BBS's, AOL, usenet, IRC, etc. which were all created with the explicit purpose of people con
by qbasic_forever 5y ago
That's a very tunnel vision view of the early web. You're ignoring BBS's, AOL, usenet, IRC, etc. which were all created with the explicit purpose of people connecting and talking to other people. You can go even further back to things like Community Memory and the Homebrew Computer Club--computing has firmly been embracing people connecting to other people since the early days.
- FeepingCreature 5y agoNone of those need, or benefit from, your real name.
- nsxwolf 5y agoI was huge into the BBS scene for years. I had a handle. Only a few close personal friends knew my name. I think most of us here are anonymous.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoSure you could connect with people, but you wouldn’t connect with Firstname Lastname, you would connect with some nickname that you were associating with some cool stuff they had written about. It was not inherently about people, it was about what those people managed to bring into virtual existence that was interesting, and it was that you wanted to connect with.