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And before, many people were on ICQ, MSN, AOL, etc. Then before that you got BBSes, CompuServe, Minitel, etc. And before that you probably got Ham radio.
by 29athrowaway 4y ago
And before, many people were on ICQ, MSN, AOL, etc.
Then before that you got BBSes, CompuServe, Minitel, etc.
And before that you probably got Ham radio.
- wrycoder 4y agoDon’t forget IRC, USENET, and plain old email lists, like Mailman.
- travisgriggs 4y agocomp.lang.* I miss thee. Pre-the-spam that is.
- midoridensha 4y agoI never understood the attraction of Ham radio, outside the technical aspect (building fancy radio equipment) if you're into electronics, and I'm old enough that Ham was still a thing when I was growing up and I had one friend that was really into it. Unlike all the online services where there were separate channels for different interests, even back in the BBS/Compu$erve days, ham radio had no such thing, it was just random people. You might as well just go hang out at a bar and talk to random people there; the quality of conversation won't be any different.
- galaxyLogic 4y agoIt was a club. You had to pay for the radio to join, and you had to be skillful enough to operate it. In other words my kinda buddy. Now I wonder what if there was social media you had to pay to join?