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fidonet and bbs's before that pen-pals before that ( help me out here...)
by andyidsinga 12y ago
fidonet and bbs's
before that pen-pals
before that ( help me out here...)
- PeterWhittaker 12y agoI don't know why you were downvoted, I think you were spot on. I'll bet that a lot of history's great letter-writers were introverts. Much of this sort of collaboration took place over weeks and months instead of seconds and minutes, and took place asynchronously. I'd be willing to bet that many early members of the Royal Society were highly social introverts - Society meetings satisfied their need for synchronous collaboration, but most of their work was done alone or in small groups.
- andyidsinga 12y agoi usually get votes down for humor ...but i was most serious in this case. im an introvert, was a fidonet node and an avid BBSer.
- pessimizer 12y agoBooks, books, books.
- bcoates 12y agoThere was (is?) a whole mail-relay postal service culture. In the mid-90s my grandmother was a node in semi-formalized mailing list system that more than anything resembled a mimeograph version of Reddit. you'd get packets of stuff (jokes, photos, recipes, poems, stories, coupons, what-have-you) from people and sort of mix and match them and send them on to other people in your mailing list who'd like them, copying the good stuff and pruning the uninteresting. I remember seeing literally the same fw: fw: fw: jokes that were circulating on BBSes at the time being circulated on hand-typed pages.
- andyidsinga 12y agothats really cool. as i was writing my comment above i was imagining that there must have been something just like that. ..but would never have guessed it existed in the 90s!