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How did people networking online before social media?

@pasteur_buster Giving your question some thought, I would think Skype and Email would be a few ways....or perhaps carrier pigeons?;):)
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pasteur_buster said:
before social media blooms in 2010's, what form of online networking people discuss or sharing things? all i know is internet forums but what's more?
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What I remember online was the Yahoo Groups, which were somewhat similar to the facebook groups nowadays. Yahoo had groups for just about anything imaginable, as well as groups for buying and selling things , similar to facebook marketplace.

Back when the internet was all dial-up, it cost a lot more to be online, so most people went online, downloaded email, and then back offline to read it and write out an answer and then back online to send the email.
Pictures , even small ones, could take over a half hour to download. I know that sounds crazy now, but that is what it was like back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s.
So, no one sent pictures, or posted pictures, or any of that stuff back then.

Later, Yahoo (which was the main search engine before Google took over) had a way that you could make video calls over the internet, and by then it didn’t cost so much to be online, so people started chatting with each other more. Bobby and I met each other on a Christian website that had a chatroom, but with dial-up being so erratic, we never knew if the Yahoo video was going to work or not.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
What I remember online was the Yahoo Groups, which were somewhat similar to the facebook groups nowadays. Yahoo had groups for just about anything imaginable, as well as groups for buying and selling things , similar to facebook marketplace.

Back when the internet was all dial-up, it cost a lot more to be online, so most people went online, downloaded email, and then back offline to read it and write out an answer and then back online to send the email.
Pictures , even small ones, could take over a half hour to download. I know that sounds crazy now, but that is what it was like back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s.
So, no one sent pictures, or posted pictures, or any of that stuff back then.

Later, Yahoo (which was the main search engine before Google took over) had a way that you could make video calls over the internet, and by then it didn’t cost so much to be online, so people started chatting with each other more. Bobby and I met each other on a Christian website that had a chatroom, but with dial-up being so erratic, we never knew if the Yahoo video was going to work or not.
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that's interesting, but how do i find more communities or niche based websites since google search engine is flooded with recycle content which gives me a list of generic answers like reddit or quora?
 
All that stuff came a long time after Dial-In Bulletin Boards. I used to run a board that was Mustang Software's Wildcat! BBS 5. Our favorite thing to waste time back then was playing Legend of the Red Dragon (aka LORD) for one hour a day. You had to share the game with other people, one at a time. IF you could get in at all...
 
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