re: #321 JordanRules

Where are the things that came after all the old tech you mentioned and before the social media?
Websites, chatrooms, blogs, email blasts and newsletters etc had the same reach.

Actually, no. Before the explosion of the World Wide Web, chatrooms, blogs, &c actually had a much smaller reach. Internet service was widely unavailable, computers with any significant power were exceptionally expensive (therefore E-mail blasts were also rather uncommon).

Outside of Commodore’s Quantum Link (which became AOL), CompuServe had the largest marketshare, running on PDP-8s, 10s, and 11s. At it’s peak, it had 380,000 subscribers in the USA.