An Anonymous Coward writes:
Amsterdam had social media in 1994, back before normal people in most places even knew the Internet existed. It grew to 400,000 users before being privatized and thus killed. Now there is an effort to recover and preserve it.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Dunbal on Sunday March 30 2014, @02:14PM
I also had Mirabilis ICQ... Facebook invented social media as much as Apple invented the tablet.
(Score: 1) by daver!west!fmc on Sunday March 30 2014, @04:00PM
Some of us had e-mail, and later Usenet news too.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Sunday March 30 2014, @06:31PM
The tablet computer was probably invented in the 1960s, by Arthur C. Clarke (also the inventor of the geosynchronous satellite). It make an appearance in his movie "2001: A Space Odyssey".
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 30 2014, @10:49PM
Star Trek:TOS premiered in 1966. They had handheld thingies before the 1968 release of Kubrick's movie.
-- gewg_
(Score: 4, Informative) by lx on Sunday March 30 2014, @02:19PM
The self important people involved in this may hail it as the forerunner of facebook but
as I recall it was an ordinary BBS and a half deserted and cheesy one at that. There were much better ones run by amateurs all over the country.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday March 30 2014, @05:15PM
I remember inventing social media in 1993, when I created my CGI-driven "virtual pub fight" webpage. And even that was just ripping off stuff that had been done before (e.g. the ubiquitous* guestbooks).
The internet was invented for the easy exchange of information. The infrastructure was inventive - all payloads are just payloads.
[* ubiquitous to internet users at the time - the internet's expanded my many orders of magnitude since then.]
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 5, Interesting) by zim on Sunday March 30 2014, @05:30PM
And there were alot less of them to deal with. It took some measure of intelligence to setup a computer and get a term program going and call up a bbs.
Altho i don't miss the bills for calling all over the world. And the bills for having 10 phone lines. And the fighting with the phone company that i wasn't actually a business but just a home user spending my own money to run the thing.
(Score: 1) by Bartman12345 on Sunday March 30 2014, @02:59PM
So... have Facebook made them an offer for it yet?
(Score: 1) by jpkunst on Sunday March 30 2014, @03:42PM
(Score: 2) by TheLink on Sunday March 30 2014, @06:14PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mFJdOsjJ0k [youtube.com]
and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1) by spiritplumber on Monday March 31 2014, @12:34AM
Why is it never the inventors that make money/get recognition?
(Score: 2) by everdred on Monday March 31 2014, @04:27PM
Because that's "real" work.