I’ve seen this before…
August 22nd, 2008
I remember the good old days where you had to dial in a BBS (using a modem) to get information, talk to other people, download images and files, chat and so on.
I’m sure many people remember this. In the early days, each BBS was independent. This means that if you wanted to leave a message to a certain person, you had to visit that BBS and leave a message there. Pretty innefficient as you can see (compared to email).
Then came "network messages". There were various network message providers. Some very local which deserved many sites in a single city level and some were international. FidoNet is one that I remember. It was fantastic and please remember that this was back in the early 90’s…
Fast forward in 2008. Facebook, MySpace and all those so called "social" sites use local messenging systems that are not interconnected to each other.
History does repeat itself after all…!
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August 22nd, 2008 at 10:44 am
*That* is what’s been troubling me in the back of my mind about all that! Thanks!
BBS vet too:
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/the-question-i-can-answer/