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I heard twice about Threads. The first time when it was announced and not available in the EU and the second time is now.
The only thing I ever used as a social network and also even with my real name was FidoNet, where you called a local BBS number maybe just once or twice a day to receive and send messages, private and in different boards you subscribed to. And it really was social back then.
I used it with a DOS client called Crosspoint (XP). A friend from school explained everything to me.
There was another similar network I used with the same software for a short while before, but I think it was local only, there had been just people from the city I lived in and it was only on that one BBS I think.
We already had Internet and ISDN 64KBit/s at home and no modem before that. But at that time Fido was just cheaper than browsing the slow Internet with AOL and Netscape Navigator. I wasn't allowed to use it much. I think 128KBit/s was available too but that doubled the already high price and we never used it. Also the second line was needed for my long phone calls. 😉
Those mostly two short phone calls for getting and reading my Fido messages and sending my new messages and answers later, already could take a few hours every day. I wasn't allowed to use the PC in general that much. But I mostly was done with it when my stepfather got home.
Later I could do it more often per day, but at the same time the Internet got more interesting too, what gave it a little boost and then less and less people used it. It even seems still to exist. Maybe I should look if someone still is there in my country. I never used it internationally.
The only thing I ever used as a social network and also even with my real name was FidoNet, where you called a local BBS number maybe just once or twice a day to receive and send messages, private and in different boards you subscribed to. And it really was social back then.
I used it with a DOS client called Crosspoint (XP). A friend from school explained everything to me.
There was another similar network I used with the same software for a short while before, but I think it was local only, there had been just people from the city I lived in and it was only on that one BBS I think.
We already had Internet and ISDN 64KBit/s at home and no modem before that. But at that time Fido was just cheaper than browsing the slow Internet with AOL and Netscape Navigator. I wasn't allowed to use it much. I think 128KBit/s was available too but that doubled the already high price and we never used it. Also the second line was needed for my long phone calls. 😉
Those mostly two short phone calls for getting and reading my Fido messages and sending my new messages and answers later, already could take a few hours every day. I wasn't allowed to use the PC in general that much. But I mostly was done with it when my stepfather got home.
Later I could do it more often per day, but at the same time the Internet got more interesting too, what gave it a little boost and then less and less people used it. It even seems still to exist. Maybe I should look if someone still is there in my country. I never used it internationally.
