The saddest part of social media is that we had social media 30 years ago, it was just called “Newsgroups” back then
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 11:17:03 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 12:26:36 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@howtophil yes and no, those are predecessors.
But Usenet is literally federated social media, completely with image and video attachments, block lists, inter-server feuds etc.
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HowToPhil (Phillip R) (howtophil@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 12:26:37 JST HowToPhil (Phillip R)
Ham radio and BBS
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Nika Shilobod (nikashilobod@fediscience.org)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 12:26:53 JST Nika Shilobod
@thomasfuchs The past is my favourite rake to step on.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 12:38:25 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@howtophil admittedly that’s pretty close
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HowToPhil (Phillip R) (howtophil@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 12:38:26 JST HowToPhil (Phillip R)
@thomasfuchs Not familiar with fidonet?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 12:41:37 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@howtophil fwiw Usenet predates Fidonet by 3-4 years
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