No, it was BBSs and IRC. And that's probably not right either, I just don't know what was before that. I think "social networking" is an emergent phenomenon onc

No, it was BBSs and IRC. And that's probably not right either, I just don't know what was before that. I think "social networking" is an emergent phenomenon once you have some trivial, really trivial technology, and groups of people of some critical mass.