Millennials: It’s ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how “first-gen social media users have nowhere to go.” Ouch.

  • hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is this their first platform death? Come on, Wired!

    Millennials have been losing platforms on the Internet for pretty much the whole history of the Internet. Just a handful of “social media” type services that have risen and fallen in my years of the internet: AOL Instant Message, ICQ, IRC, Usenet, LiveJournal, MySpace, on and on.

    Most of these aren’t even properly “dead”, many I just.mentioned still have big user groups too. They just lost a critical user share when folks moved on.

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      1 year ago

      Usenet is still quite active. Especially in the piracy field, as a forum for discussion, it’s pretty dead though.

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        Oldest Millennials were almost too old for Gaia. We were 18-22 at it’s launch in 2003.

        I got my start on Alamak Chat in late 1995 but I had friends who had already been on IRC or Usenet for years prior to that.