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I don't get what Dorsey's saying there. Only geeky mostly male hobbyists used IRC and usenet.

• mattlondon 5y ago
  I think his point was that "the old days" were decentralised (e.g email, IRC networks, sites), but today lots of people use centralised Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/Discord instead.
  • stjohnswarts 5y ago
    Yeah, he's just trying to sell his new de-centralized web 3 activities. Creating a public record for that no doubt.
• jdrc 5y ago
  you make it sound like women were using something else?
• tootie 5y ago
  I have come to believe that Dorsey is very much a non-visionary. He doesn't understand why his own products are successful. Twitter is successful in 2022 for reasons that seem completely separate from what was ever intended. Like many successful entrepreneurs, he is vastly undervaluing how lucky he got. Twitter is neither micro-blogging nor a social network. It's a low-touch, self-service PR platform and it's wildly successful at it. That is completely orthogonal to what usenet was (and is) for. If there's a modern replacement for that niche, it's reddit.
• Longlius 5y ago
  There were a lot of women on IRC back in the day and it wasn't just hobbyists. Almost every web forum had an associated IRC channel and forum users would congregate there. Depending on what the forum was about, you'd often see more women than men.