XPost: alt.comp.linux   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 2/02/2026 12:33 am, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > Mr. Man-wai Chang  wrote:   
   >> On 2/1/2026 4:21 PM, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Whilst I doubt there were many under-16's using UseNet, I have   
   >>> heard some suggest that it is a "Social Media".   
   >>>   
   >>> Facebook ... Sure!   
   >>> X ... Sure!   
   >>> Instagram .... Sure!   
   >>> Youtube .... Some would suggest it is "Social Media", too.   
   >>>   
   >>> ... and there are probably others I can't think of or have Never   
   >>> heard of.   
   >>>   
   >>> But is UseNet "Social Media"??   
   >>   
   >> Usenet is "fully duplex", so it's social media because you can   
   >> communicate with each others. :)   
   >>   
   >> The same goes to Fidonet BBS.   
   >   
   > The History section of Wikipedia's 'Social media' page starts with   
   > the PLATO system and later says   
   >   
   > "Usenet, conceived by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979 at the   
   > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, was   
   > the first open social media app, established in 1980."   
   >   
   > So I guess that settles it once and for all! :-)   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   I thought UseNet was just an outsourcing/spreading of the D.A.R.P.A.   
   projects into the Common peoples environments!!   
      
   D.A.R.P.A. apparently started back in Feb 1958.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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