What was your first experience of the social internet?
(I would do this as a poll, but mastodon.social only allows four options.)
• BBSes
• Mailing lists
• IRC
• Personal pages (Geocities, Tripod, etc.)
• Comment sections on web sites
• Chat rooms
• Messengers (ICQ etc)
• Blogs
• Early networking sites (say which)
• Social media as we know it now (say which)
Please boost if you find this interesting?
@zigzackly
I visited Geocities pages a lot but didn't see it as a social thing.
Tried IRC but could really get into it.
Mailing lists were the first among these that I actually participated in. I think I saw them described in a local language (#Tamil) magazine, and the idea of groups organized at multiple levels (comp.lang.xyz) fascinated me, so I checked them out. And over time built up the courage to ask for help and participate in discussions.
