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The people who were first online didn't represent the average person. Everyone's online now, it used to be a bunch of geeks and weirdos back then. I'm nostalgic
by Dma54rhs 3y ago
The people who were first online didn't represent the average person. Everyone's online now, it used to be a bunch of geeks and weirdos back then. I'm nostalgic as well but the times have changed.
- giantrobot 3y agoThis is very ahistorical. There's long been consumer non-geek friendly online services. The typical AOL user in the 90s wasn't a geek by any means. They used chat rooms, instant messaging, and mailing lists via the user friendly AOL interface. Facebook has long provided a user-friendly interface for non-geek users. It's filled with non-geeks generating content. While the Internet has always had a geek contingent it hasn't been the exclusive domain of geeks for nearly thirty years.