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.
