[ih] Chat room and forum archives

[Dave Crocker]

On 8/31/2022 3:53 PM, Bob Purvy via Internet-history wrote:
> a character haunting the
> chat rooms and forums on investing, around 1995 and on

So, this was just as the Internet went mass-market.  Web coming into its 
own.  No social networking yet.

There was 1:1 chat going back forever on many systems, but 1:many group 
venues were, I think, still only in specialized teleconferencing 
systems, dating from the gas crisis in 1972. Enterprise tool, not 
mass-market.

The closest would be public discussion lists via email or, of course, 
Usenet.  I'm not sure, but I think by the 1995 timeframe, the latter had 
become established as, shall we say, mostly noise...

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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