“Delete Social Media”
Lee Atwater died in 1991. He must have been a visionary.
You know what that means.
In the style of Lee Atwater.
Lee Atwater died in 1991. He must have been a visionary.
You seem to imply that social media did not exist in 1991. It did, but it was on dial-up.
A bulletin board system, or BBS, is a computer server running custom software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users through email, public message boards, and sometimes via direct chatting. Many BBSes also offer on-line games, in which users can compete with each other, and BBSes with multiple phone lines often provide chat rooms, allowing users to interact with each other. Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web, social networks and other aspects of the Internet. Low-cost, high-performance modems drove the use of online services and BBSes through the early 1990s. Infoworld estimated there were 60,000 BBSes serving 17 million users in the United States alone in 1994, a collective market much larger than major online services like CompuServe.You may not know that before Free Republic, Jim Robinson had been a regular poster on the Prodigy Whitewater News Bulletin board. He brought disgruntled compatriots across to the new internet based platform he named FreeRepublic. Some of those old-timers are still on here with dates in 1996 or 1997.
LOL, even email existed back then. MCI Mail service was launched on September 23, 1983, in Washington, D.C. I hired on with MCI two months later and provided some technical support until it shut down in 2003. I remember shutting down some of the servers at our site in Atlanta. It is hard to believe I have been a user of email for over thirty years.