Dave Minter shared his experience in the 1990s with the precursors of modern email, discussion boards, instant messaging, and social systems. He told his story as a student in a DEC-centric world at a UK university linked to JANET and later to the Internet.
https://paperstack.com/an_early_social_unnetwork/
#retrocomputing #dec
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