Makes me want to unplug and go back to offline social media. That's a joke. The dominant effect was networked applications getting developed, enabling community, not a shift back to client terminals.

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grumbel 2 days ago | parent [-]

Once up on a time social media was called Usenet and worked offline in a dedicated client with a standard protocol. You only went online to download and send messages, but could then go offline and read them in an app of your choice.

Web2.0 discarded the protocol approach and turned your computer into a thin client that does little more than render webapps that require you to be permanently online.

	▲	cesarb 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Once up on a time social media was called Usenet and worked offline in a dedicated client with a standard protocol. There was also FidoNet with offline message readers.
	▲	positron26 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> called Usenet and worked offline People must have been pretty smart back then. They had to know to hang up the phone to check for new messages.