• BlueLineBae@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    What is the definition of “online” for this chart? The first website wasn’t even up until 1991, so how can the line start at 1980?

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      5 months ago

      I’m curious if that included classified and dating messaging services. Aziz Ansari has a good book where he interviewed people who met using those services back in the day, and were embarrassed to tell people that’s how they met.

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      5 months ago

      BBS’es and Fidonet through modem were there before the web.

      Don’t think many found each other on BBS’s but at least they could download low res porn.