But its not really a social network...BBSs were/are great too! Plus BBs let you actually manage content versus just chat and link. IRC is great and always will be but a social network it is not...and I doubt we are gonna see any real revival.
Irc created more new social connections than many networks that came after. Same goes for bbs. We need to find the next thing that truly connects people.
BBSs were more of the than not local, with some federation in that the operator or someone he trusted would exchange data between the local BBS and some distant BBS.
Similarly IRC used to house a high number of very local channels back when i first came online (and one tried to pick a server on the network that was in one's own nation or a neighboring one to avoid finding oneself on the wrong end of a net split).
Social networks offers much the same via various means (groups on facebook, sub-reddits on reddit, etc).
Honestly IMO, what killed IRC was IM and SMS. This because now the schoolyard cliques could once more ostracize.
j45|7 years ago
digi_owl|7 years ago
BBSs were more of the than not local, with some federation in that the operator or someone he trusted would exchange data between the local BBS and some distant BBS.
Similarly IRC used to house a high number of very local channels back when i first came online (and one tried to pick a server on the network that was in one's own nation or a neighboring one to avoid finding oneself on the wrong end of a net split).
Social networks offers much the same via various means (groups on facebook, sub-reddits on reddit, etc).
Honestly IMO, what killed IRC was IM and SMS. This because now the schoolyard cliques could once more ostracize.
coatmatter|7 years ago