alt Hacker NewsWe didn’t call forums back then “social media”, we called them discussion forums…
I was there, just go to the official phpBB forums and search my name..
We didn’t call forums back then “social media”, we called them discussion forums…
I was there, just go to the official phpBB forums and search my name..
I was also there. We (ie the people I interacted with) called myspace social media and considered discussion forums to be a specialized subset of social media.
We also considered myspace to be a social network (due to the friend graph) while forums were not.
The chans were a weird almost edge case. I think they qualify as social media but the lack of persistent identities significantly changes the dynamics (obviously).