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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago
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From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]

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    How did we move from usenet to forums?

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      Browsers and the internet protocols were pretty sweet, man

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        Didn’t usenet also have a lot of spam problems associated with it?

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          Yes. Still does. Though blocking Google groups cuts down on most of it

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