Bulletin Board System Software Reminds You of the Existence of Other People

In the early nineties, people who are building bulletin boards started to figure out ways to make interconnection to the internet. The web is one more tool that sits on top of their t c p ip connection. It's not till later that the web is your like, primary mode of accessing all of those other internet services. i kind of argue through the book that it's the joining of the web and bulleton board systems that transforms the web into a social medium.