The History of Social Media

**uls** · January 26th, 2011 01:27 PM

http://mashable.com/2011/01/24/the-h...a-infographic/

**kotiko** · January 26th, 2011 01:46 PM

Oh, Geocities. Those were the days. I still remember setting up sites on various "cities". :D

Love the way you'd pick out a house there like you're in a neighborhood.

**flakez** · January 26th, 2011 07:32 PM

naalala ko lang sa geocities yung mag sesetup ka ng website mo. hehehe

**digitalron** · January 27th, 2011 12:18 PM

I had my first taste of BBS in 1989 in a friend's house. He had a 2400 baud (roughly 2.4 Kbps) RS-232 acoustic coupler attached to his phone and we had a blast chatting with other BBS members, as well as exchanging GIF images and playing ASCII games.

One thing I don't see is IRC, which I think also played a very significant role in creating online communities.

**_Cathy_** · January 27th, 2011 01:38 PM

^Wow I thought BBS only started in the 90s!

I started using the internet in the mid 90s. Back then very few people had an internet connection and it still cost P1/min or P2000 for unlimited usage. ICQ makes me feel nostalgic too. lol.

**digitalron** · January 27th, 2011 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by Cathy_for_you

^Wow I thought BBS only started in the 90s!

My friend started in 1987 but at that time I wasn't into BBSes yet. We were in high school then and I was more interested with programming. But, after discovering what the BBS allowed you to do, I was hooked!

I started using the internet in the mid 90s. Back then very few people had an internet connection and it still cost P1/min or P2000 for unlimited usage. ICQ makes me feel nostalgic too. lol.

Yup, at that time, Mozcom was the major player among Philippine ISPs. Then came Pacific Internet, other ISPs, then prepaid internet access cards, whew! Ah, those old days when owning a 28.8 Kbps modem put you on the cutting edge while everyone else were using 14.4 Kbps modems, hehehe!