2020-02-26 (Wednesday)
Tweets
Clear Lake, Houston TX. Wrote one of gyford.com/phil/uhcl/meth… Made first-e.com ad banners for @kevmoss. Selling my car; woman phoned, insisted I invite Jesus into my life. Read @kottke, @benbrown, @maura's "online journals", thought about starting my own. Lonely. twitter.com/brennx0r/statu…
10, USENET.
But I've also been thinking about experiences of "social media" pre-internet and I think my earliest were:
* Letters pages in comics and magazines
* Chain letters and pen pals
Later, Play By Mail games and their letters and zines. twitter.com/Carnage4Life/s…
Another example of Generation X erasure. My 80s & 90s peeps which app did you start your social media life on?
1.) AIM
2.) Yahoo Chat
3.) LiveJournal
4.) Orkut
5.) Friendster
6.) Xanga
7.) Bebo
8.) Blogger/Six Apart/Personal Blog
9.) IRC
10.) USENET
11.) Other twitter.com/wydsimp/status…
@ThreeUKSupport I'm trying to register for My3 but whatever email address I try I get this unhelpful error: "Whoops, something went wrong. Please try again. MY3-CHANGE-EMAIL-RESPONSE-ERROR" Any ideas?
