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We didn’t call forums back then “social media”, we called them discussion forums… I was there, just go to the official phpBB forums and search my name..

• fc417fc802 9mo ago
  I was also there. We (ie the people I interacted with) called myspace social media and considered discussion forums to be a specialized subset of social media. We also considered myspace to be a social network (due to the friend graph) while forums were not. The chans were a weird almost edge case. I think they qualify as social media but the lack of persistent identities significantly changes the dynamics (obviously).
  • Gud 9mo ago
    Nobody called a phpBB forum “social media” 20-25 years ago. Nobody.
    • Izkata 9mo ago
      Not only did we do it back then, scroll around this thread - it's still a thing today, people are calling HN "social media".
  • trashb 9mo ago
    As far as I know chans are always considered "image boards" and they are usually distinct by the fact that the information is "pushed off" the board after a time or amount posted afterwards.
    • fc417fc802 9mo ago
      Image boards, which are a subset of forums, which are a subset of social media.