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> Just a thought: for someone living in the 90s, wouldn't Facebook have been also very difficult to conceive? No, it would have been obviously cool. Those of u
by twic 5y ago
> Just a thought: for someone living in the 90s, wouldn't Facebook have been also very difficult to conceive?
No, it would have been obviously cool. Those of us who were online already had IRC and newsgroups, and later instant messaging, home pages on GeoCities, etc. A service which rolled all of that up together and made it easy to use would have been rad as hell.
- nathias 5y agoas someone that was on IRC at the time, no it wasn't obviously cool, it was and remains worse in every aspect to irc. FB succeeded because it ignored the internet as it existed and conquered it for normies.