Frankly, I don't think you're making your point, but swang made it below in another part of the discussion: "And surprise surprise, people who used one of the

Frankly, I don't think you're making your point, but swang made it below in another part of the discussion: "And surprise surprise, people who used one of the more technical communications medium back in the 90s end up being technical people when they grew up." I think that's your actual point: Smart technical young people became smart technical adults, and the hindsight of whats app could have been any number of channels, just as many of the members were parts of many "crews" or channels. Unlike most channels though, as you point out, they met up in real life, generally in august in vegas. :-)