Re: What IS “Social Media”??

On 2026-02-09 07:58, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 03:20:02 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 21:17:05 +1100, Daniel70 wrote:
>>
>>> ... I just never associated UseNet with "Social Media".
>>
>> You didn’t need a name for a category back when there was only one
>> instance of that category ...
> 
> Something that completely slipped my mind -- there was after all
> something else, that was Internet-based from the beginning, and that
> was IRC.
> 
> Just been watching a potted history of its origins here
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbKenFipjo>.

Interesting.

I'm confused by it being a network. There are isolated networks that can 
have the same rooms, what is being talked in one of them doesn't go to 
the other. I know because the openSUSE rooms changed server (from 
irc.freenode.net) to another one (or network) (in irc.libera.net) 
isolated from the previous one, with different administrators more 
friendly or something.

It is an unknown world to me.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
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