Here's my best stab at it, from the perspective of a guy who saw the internet in its infancy (not myself): Email was the first great asynchronous digital mass

Here's my best stab at it, from the perspective of a guy who saw the internet in its infancy (not myself): Email was the first great asynchronous digital mass communication tool built on the store-and-forward idea. Twitter (or SMS'd tweets, really) is another, much more limited form of the same technology.