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What makes you think it wasn't a social network?
by mattl 2y ago
What makes you think it wasn't a social network?
- vaylian 2y agoIt is only a chat platform and it predates the first social networks (which were explicitly called "social networks" back then). This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but I think people use the term "social network" way to much so that it doesn't even mean anything any more.
- mattl 2y agoI don't know what the official ICQ client does today but back in the day it had more than just chats between people. It had file sharing, etc.
- eternauta3k 2y agoWe associate other stuff like sharing and virality with social networks. Isn't the phone network just as much of a social network as ICQ?
- mattl 2y agoI think party lines on the phone, yes.