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Does posting on BBS count as 'social media'? Asking for a friend.
Could you please elaborate what is BBS ??π€π€π€
BBS. My bad, I should have added a link. But I insist: I'm not that old, I'm only asking for a friend π
WOW π²π² So it was used way back in the 70s ??π€π€π€
We need to go back to these basics, considering how the big corps are tightening their noose around our neck.
I only started using it in the early to mid-80s myself, but yeah its kinda getting old... a bit like me, as a matter of fact ;)
I would love to see a lot of young people agree with you, but it's already so late I'm not even sure it's still possible to massively move back to a pre corporate-owned tech. People have been taught to expect convenience above anything else... it will be hard work to change that... which doesn't go along very well with the idea of convenience.
To be honest, Zuckerberg and l are of the same age. He's looking how to give younger people more convenience, whereas l would love to take the internet out of the clutches of the big corps.
Totally counts my man. In the early-mid '00s my wife and I were stationed in Germany and she knew no one so I hatched a plan. I registered a domain, set up a basic BBS, and we had business cards printed out with her name, email, and the address. Anytime she ran into another mom at the commissary, px, or just around base she would pass them out and organize a playgroup. From what I've heard it is still around, it just moved to Facebook.
She really got out of her shell and she organized a ton of playgroups (reserving community centers or organizing backups in case of bad weather). It was called K-Town Moms (the K was for Kaiserslautern). Good times and fond memories.