first one i remember was a chatroom dedicated to gardening
i played hearts and spades in a room that had chat
then myspace
then the dailyom
then facebook, but never trusted that place and when the cambridge analytic thingie happened i tossed that place in the trash and i lost touch with a brazillion folks
BUT
at that same time the redhotpawn was revealed to me
twitter was fun for a while, but i found it difficult to make rhymes that made sense when i was limited to four words and a smileyface
ashley madison distracted me for a coupla weeks
tinder and match nearly caught me, but they were ultimately too expensive for the products they sold
i'm fishing for a suitable mate
using only my pictures as bait
i cast my best line
feeling confidently fine
i sit back in the boat and wait
that never worked as well as i thought it would
@diver saidSimilarly, I'm not sure about the timeline. Sometime in the late 80s/early 90s.
My first social media experience was a website called “Friends Reunited”. It was very basic but served a purpose.
I almost set up a MySpace account but remember now that I couldn’t be bothered.
Timelines are hazy but both destroyed by Facebook I suppose.
Back in the day of 300-baud modems, someone at work suggested I get on "The Well" BBS (based in San Francisco). That would count as a social platform.
I remember the text-based Gopher web browser that preceded Netscape. And sure, I remember the Altavista search engine.
I think our workplace at the university got wired for internet sometime around 1993, but it was done college-by-college (or by department, for some of the larger departments) -- with no central planning at the time. The mop closets in the older buildings became dual-purpose: mops and buckets (and plumbing!) sharing space with lots of electronics. 😉
At the time, the mail servers were just floor-standing tower boxes in the Dean's Office. Of course, later on the overall admin of that complex of buildings did reorganize and standardize the network infrastructure.
I probably did AOL for a year or two, and I remember MySpace but am not sure I had an account there or did anything with it.
Oh, maybe it's also important to mention Internet Relay Chat (IRC). There was a local gay channel where someone seemed to dislike me just for being literate and writing the best posts. 😉 No romantic connections ever developed from that channel.
