lagomorpheme
first online “platform” experience?
dial-in BBSes, minitel, etc
usenet
MUCKs/MUDs etc
IRC
pre-web compuserve/AOL walled garden-like
web-based forums/chats (infospace, beseen, etc)
topical community site (deviantart/elfwood/side7/newgrounds/neopets etc)
early social network/blogging (myspace, livejournal, facebook etc)
late social network/social media/hybrid (twitter, tumblr, tiktok, etc)
other (reply in the tags! or don’t)
(some of these overlap timeline-wise but i’m going by vibes. it’s not science in the least)
(yes i lumped minitel in with BBSes but to be fair, minitel was incredibly regional and i don’t expect this poll to travel far enough to actually run into anyone old enough to vote for it specifically)
(yes things like geocities/angelfire/tripod/spree etc were left out because i figure “platform” in this context means “interacting with one or more other people in a near-real-time or time-shifted way”)
gasp! someone finally voted “usenet”
also this actually already gained more traction than i thought it would, maybe someone will hit the first option specifically for minitel……
