How did you live before the "boom" of social networks?

SVolkov2012-10-22 18:59:13

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SVolkov, 2012-10-22 18:59:13

Unfortunately, I didn’t catch that time, I started using the Internet after the heyday of social networks, so it became interesting how the Internet looked before, as it seems now, most of it - social networks? Seniors, please share.

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edogs, 2012-10-22
@SVolkov

The Internet, in fact, was born from social networks, the “boom” didn’t really change anything in essence, except for the way information was presented.
Suffice it to recall the fidonet - messages, groups, names, addresses, mailing lists, signatures - all the functionality was already then. The essence has not changed, the names and formats of publication and access have changed. Conferences - the same fidonet, only in real time. Forums are the same nonsense as conferences, only the format for presenting information is different and there is more emphasis on profiles. Blogs are the same as a forum, only the format for presenting information is different again and more emphasis on users. Vkontaktiki - the same as blogs / forums, only user profiles are prominent in the first place, and everything is strongly separated.

kaladhara, 2012-10-22
@kaladhara

Well, how they lived ...
In a tavern, it happened - “Man! And give the device and papers, and then take down the letter to the post office!
Pigeon mail, again.

Barmunk, 2012-10-22
@Barmunk

Colobock, 2012-10-23
@Colobock

Yes, he lived. Social networks did not interest me and did not change anything.

spmbt, 2012-10-22
@spmbt

The stoves were stoked black. Washed with water from a tub. From books they learned that the Earth is round, and in the proofs they used the axioms of Euclid.

egorinsk, 2012-10-22
@egorinsk

There were asechki and e-mail.

Igor, 2012-10-22
@igoravr

Same way. There were chats, forums, blogs, instant messengers, email. All this is now.

demimurych, 2012-10-22
@demimurych

Don't know.
I still don't use the Internet and I don't know what it is

syntax, 2012-10-27
@syntax

And images were disabled in the browser to load faster

Unhandled_Exception, 2012-10-22
@Unhandled_Exception

ICQ, msn messenger, forums… Bed chat!

Alexander, 2012-10-22
@Alexx_ps

At first I had IRC and chats, and then the forums took the lead. I did not find Fidonet)

telegamochka, 2012-10-22
@telegamochka

And back in the days of fido (with which I had no chance to deal) there were BBSs. Also, in a sense, communication and information exchange :)

ooprizrakoo, 2012-10-23
@ooprizrakoo

Before social networks, the Internet was something like this:
1. Entertainment portals: anecdotes, pictures, interesting articles.
2. Catalogs of interesting thematic sites.
3. A huge number of homepages on free hostings with obligatory guest books for feedback.
4. Popular storages for mp3 files (rmp, allofmp3, delit, etc.)
5. The rise of large thematic Internet forums.
6. The first p2p networks appeared (napster, emule).
7. The heyday (and then a strong deflation) of IRC in favor of messengers, for Russia and Germany this is primarily ICQ, for America - AOL IM and MSN Messenger. The beginning of the development of Skype.
There were no torrents. There were no video hosting sites. No online music. There were no hosting photo albums. There was no opportunity to “friend” anyone.

bogolt, 2012-10-24
@bogolt

Well lived, interesting. Aska, Irka - provided the opportunity to communicate with anyone. The magic of indescribable power. For example, you do a search on ICQ, and you find foreigners with interests close to you and start talking. They answer you, start a conversation. Everyone is friendly - everyone on the Internet is good by default.
Trolling doesn't exist.
There is spam.
Correspondence in guest books is normal.
Paper magazines are published from where you write out the addresses of interesting sites so that you can go there later.
In LiveJournal, registration of free accounts is by invitation only (it was rarely possible to invite, it seems once a week).
In fact, the search for friends took place through - online games (usually text) and forums of interest.

nick4fake, 2012-10-22
@nick4fake

It started.

Robotex, 2012-10-24
@Robotex

I remember chats when subscribers of our provider got together every Saturday and drank beer together. Ah, there were times...

antonevich, 2012-10-22
@antonevich

Pirated films were bought on DVD, music was downloaded before listening, and friends' birthdays were kept in a notebook. They lived absurdly, in a word.

Mrrl, 2012-10-23
@Mrl

At first - only communication with friends, by e-mail. Then on ICQ. Then came the forums. Chats too, but they didn't really interest me. Yes, and I perceive social networks simply as a kind of forums.

Alexander, 2012-10-23
@akalend

Just like now ... little has changed in my life ... the children have grown up a little and nothing more.
I remember when I registered with classmates, only about 50 people from my school were registered, and even then - all graduates of those years. Of my age, I was the first ... I was not interested in classmates ... and with their security policy - I no longer go.
After some time, I registered in VKontakte ... There were practically no friends of mine there ... I returned to VKontakte and Odnoklassniki only when I became a developer of social networks. Well, as they say - is it possible to do something for contact - without contact?
Yes, you have to play games in order to understand what to add to your own to make it better ... You play and understand how everything is the same for everyone and there is nothing new, sheer plagiarism. not interested.
There are a lot of friends (classmates, colleagues, former colleagues) with whom I communicate only on holidays with the help of virtual postcards ...
so in 10-15 years - both before the boom and after - life has changed little.

Evgeny Elizarov, 2012-10-23
@KorP

IRC and cozy zhzhshechka :)

Alexander Rabotyahoff, 2012-10-23
@Holden

In the not-so-distant 2007, I started a survey “Are you a member of any social network?” The result “What is a social network?" — 70%
melitopol.com.ua/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5865

alex_blank, 2012-10-23
@alex_blank

IRC, forums. In general, not much has changed, I have Facebook and Twitter just “for show”, I prefer to communicate with friends on IRL or on Skype. Habr for me is just a kind of forum, as mentioned above.

Daniel Newman, 2012-10-23
@danielnewman

Previously, there were few people on the Internet and resources were closer to developing topics. Masturbation, again, did not flourish as now. In general, it was fine without social programs. But now, if desired, not worse.

Andrey Kuntsevich, 2012-10-23
@titulusdesiderio

In the era of yard networks - Intranet:
Chats, mostly intranet (FChat, iChat, Vypres).
Forums.
p2p (Flylink, DC++) and they have 500GB local media servers O_o
On the Internet - again Forums, chats (IRC, ICQ), personal blogs.

Busla, 2012-10-23
@Busla

Before the boom of classmates and VKontakte, there was Damochka.ru (now it has been completely converted into a dating site).
Never seen in chats (neither web, nor irc). There were forums, guest books.

KawaiDesu, 2012-10-23
@KawaiDesu

I was a homebody student. A little ICQ, chats. If there hadn’t been a boom in social networks, I would have watched more films and anime, stuck out on the forums, probably.

Seter17, 2012-10-24
@Seter17

In the beginning there was a word...

Sergey, 2012-10-25
@TsarS

We sat in the yard and drank beer, discussed all sorts of news, played "burkozla", hugged the girls and discussed "where would we need them, well ... in general, we needed a free hut." Social networks? ... I haven’t heard.

amdf, 2012-10-27
@amdf

In the first year of the institute, I didn’t have a mobile phone, and nothing, I lived perfectly.

StrangeAttractor, 2013-09-02
@StrangeAttractor

Lived normally. Met more often. There were forums and ICQ on the Internet (in other words, ICQ was supplanted not by social networks, but by Skype, primarily due to constant problems with encodings in ICQ and the complete Unicode and commercial licking of Skype, and the main advantage of ICQ was precisely the social component - the ability to search people by interests and other criteria), films were copied from each other to hard drives, music was downloaded to eMule (sometimes it was very slow), software was bought on CDs on trays near the subway, and almost everyone had telephone and passport databases where you can it was to find any classmates and get through normally. almost everyone had an unlimited home landline phone.
Social networks (in particular VKontakte), according to my feelings, brought 2 positive things: it became easier to find new acquaintances by interests and it became possible in a couple of clicks to find and watch / download almost any music / movie / clip that comes to mind (some rarities I had unsuccessfully searched for years before).