As someone who joined the Internet bandwagon relatively late (circa 2000), whenever I see such reports on /viral growth/ of social website I wonder if email and

As someone who joined the Internet bandwagon relatively late (circa 2000), whenever I see such reports on /viral growth/ of social website I wonder if email and usenet had a similar /viral growth/ in the 90s. Although the number of Internet users back then were small compared to now, they were still large enough in absolute numbers for some of these statistical analogies to apply. Usenet did eventually die out (for all practical purposes), but email is still going strong (perhaps not as much as at its peak, but it is nowhere close to being dead either).