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John Goerzen

I am so happy to see @driscoll here. Kevin is the author of two fantastic books: "#Minitel: Welcome to the #Internet" and "#Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media". I've talked about Modem World several times, including in two blog posts: changelog.complete.org/archive and changelog.complete.org/archive .

Although I lived through the #BBS era, I credit Kevin with getting me to more clearly see the #BBS story as part of the broader Internet and #SocialMedia history as well. 1/

The ChangelogLessons of Social Media from BBSsIn the recent article The Internet Origin Story You Know Is Wrong, I was somewhat surprised to see the argument that BBSs are a part of the Internet origin story that is often omitted. Surprised be…
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John Goerzen

@driscoll Many of you reading this will have never experienced the #BBS era. To use #Fediverse lingo, the high cost of long-distance phone calls caused BBS instances to be geographically-oriented and mostly small, despite global federation networks like #FidoNet. Kevin wove those stories in with what has happened with social media since. I've seen several people here note the similarities between BBS and Mastodon - Kevin's book makes those comparisons deep. 2/

Jesse Liberty :csharp:

@jgoerzen My answer got lost so I'll make this short.

I remember Fidonet well. For PBS (LearningLink) I built a distributed, threaded BBS built on FidoNet (every night it collected the entries from 25? sites and aggregated them into a threaded discussion). Great fun.

I also ran Atlantic Palisades and was Wizop on PCMagNet (PC Magazine). I even made small contributions to Magpie.

Part of me misses usenet, though frankly, Mastodon really reminds me of it.

Oh man, I'm old.

Nov 22, 2022, 05:33 PM·Public·Web
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