First social media account I signed up up for was msn to talk to a girl I liked. Msn is long gone, but that girl is now my wife
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Does Neopets count? I think I made my first account there in either late 2002 or early 2003.
I too had opened my first account around that time, but I came across Neopets today.
I guess, Gaia Online? That's the first thing I can think of making an account on.
Do you remember when it was ??🤔🤔🤔
IRC.. Does that count?
I still jump on IRC from time to time
What's that ??🤔🤔🤔
Internet Relay Chat. It was developed in the late 1980s or early 1990s, I dont remember which. Its still going. I'm using it daily.
Could you tell me how to register on this ???
You don't need to register... but, this is where things get complicated... First you need a IRC client (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IRC_clients), doesn't really matter which one, some are more simple, some are not. Some look nice, some dont.
When you have a IRC client, you need to find a IRC network (https://netsplit.de/networks/top100.php), then you have to connect to that network.
Then you have to find a channel in that network to connect to and then you can start chatting. Note that all networks have their own channels. For example if theres a #India channel on Quakenet, that is different from the #India channel in IRCnet etc.
Edit: A lot of IRC networks have a webchat possibility, for example Quakenet has one, https://webchat.quakenet.org/ Put in a username, write a channel you wish to join and click "join chat"
I think it was livejournal, but there's a chance I had some forum account somewhere even before that.
My first social media....that's a difficult question, i used a lot...tumblr, msn messenger, pidgin, blogspot, google +,facebook...
But i have lot good memories with an online game, the mmo Dofus. I was in a guild (Gaïa) on an international server at 13 years old. It was fun, i talked to a chinese person, she encouraged me to learn english, shared her favorite music. :)
Now I remember msn.
I hope we are not getting old 😅
we are getting old anyway but that's fun to discovers how we used internet. :)
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Does posting on BBS count as 'social media'? Asking for a friend.
Could you please elaborate what is BBS ??🤔🤔🤔
BBS. My bad, I should have added a link. But I insist: I'm not that old, I'm only asking for a friend 😇
WOW 😲😲 So it was used way back in the 70s ??🤔🤔🤔
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 ;)
We need to go back to these basics, considering how the big corps are tightening their noose around our neck.
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.
Must have been early 2001 when I joined http://www.irc-galleria.net/
I think I was amongst the first few thousand users on the site.
I began my internet journey around that time. There was the internet explorer as the main browser back then.
I went from Netscape to Firefox. Never really used IE
From lE, l jumped straight into firefox. There was also a yahoo browser back then ??🤔🤔🤔
I wouldn't know about that. Yahoo wasn't really a thing where I am from.
I used yahoo for searching and mailing in lndia. Where are you from ??
Finland.
Okay 😊😊
My first social media was facebook :3 which I joined as a kid entirely for the facebook games
Which year that must have been ??🤔🤔🤔
Like 2008 or 2009 I think. I hardly remember lol, I was very young
I had created my first facebook account in 2006. And l did a lot of things on Facebook. If you're still using Facebook, do you realise that it's not the same when you had initially started ??🤔🤔🤔
I never really used it other than the games tbf. I had a bunch of people added on there, and used the messenger service throughout my school years, but other than that I didn't really use it as a social media to any major amount
Though looking at it by the time I deleted my account vs when it started it had definitely changed a lot from my feed being mainly my friends to it being various random pages I hadn't followed, posting whatever shortform content.. a lot of it in arabic for some reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Slashdot and Segfault.
At the time, all my online friends used it to discuss techie things.
First social network with real people in my local area? Whirlpool.net.au
It started as a site for peer support for one ISP but became a forum for local and regional technological issues.
There were also other niche forums for niche interests, including a Nissan Pulsar forum; we would organise cruises IRL and share technical information.
Most of these communities have been subsumed by Meta, which I believe is a terrible thing. Their platforms are not as conducive for that sort of socialising, without significant amounts of friction.
These names l'm hearing from you..... Thanks for sharing 😃😃😃
I will admit that segfault was not a great community. It was a humour site, a parody of Slashdot similar to The Onion.
One of the features of Segfault was a poll. Due to how it was coded, it was trivial to add custom answers to any poll. Due to the nature of the Internet (with a capital I) at the time, quite a few ‘netizens’ were very deviant. Any time a new poll was created, one of the options would be “Natalie Portman Topless”.
I am pretty sure all the people responsible for this have either grown up and learnt the errors of their ways of gone to 4chan.
I remember that phrase now, Natalie Portman Topless😆😆😆😆😆
Facebook. I thought it was an email service back then.
You're right about that. It worked in tandem alongwith yahoo mail and hotmail. My first email accounts were in these websites back then 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
Not a social media user back then, my first account was either in a forum or in roblox [2016 roblox 😔].
Both is lost.
I messaged my friends using Whatsapp, my mom's account
What's app came in later, after apps got developed for mobile phones. Actually l grew up seeing pagers in people's pocket. They were fairly well to do people according to our social standards.
I am not old man 😅
If IRC or Usenet count, sometime in the '90s for my own account. I had a myspace fairly early and Facebook back when it was .edu only (I forget which was earlier). I'm old
Oh yes..... Now l remember..... I had created account on myspace as well..... Thanks for coming up with the name 😃😃😃
A guy at my highschool had set up his own website, forum, and email. A handful of people were active on there. It was a simpler time.
Also I used those AOL chat rooms before that. So many pedophiles on there looking for children. It got tiresome because I was just looking for kids my age to talk with.
A simpler time ??😃😃😃 When was it ??🤔🤔🤔