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Re: The BBS era

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On 2015-07-21 04:25:42 +0300, Michael Black said:
> It was an interesting period, since the internet only became local as 
> the masses arrived. Previously, the chances of bumping into someone you 
> knew, or was local, was very unlikely, unless you went to a University. 
>  So there was all kinds of talk about getting people online, and all 
> kinds of talk about making things local, which hadn't been an issue 
> just a few years earlier.  BBSs would have helped take up the slack 
> right during that period, but right on that cusp, the BBSs were 
> dismissed.


Michael's got an interesting point about BBS being local and the 
internet discarding that and going for a model that dismissed national 
borders.  It was inevitable, I suppose.  Semi-related is this book by 
Sherry Turkle, "Alone Together: why we expect more from technology and 
less from each other" I'd heard was good - haven't read it myself since 
it seems like another book whose 300 page contents you can surmise from 
the title alone.

There's some kind of a new chat app gaining traction on universities, 
that's trying to recreate that 'local' vibe - it only allows you to 
connect to people who are physically/geographically proximate somehow. 
That probably works on a university well enough but back in one's 
podunk little farming village in southwestern Shittystan, not much 
hope.  Still, would be interesting to experiment with this kind of 
design philosophy and see where it leads us.  

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      Re: The BBS era Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-07-20 21:25 -0400
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          Re: The BBS era Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-21 10:38 +0300
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    Re: The BBS era Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-07-21 14:43 -0400
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