Subj : Re: the offline way..
To   : Rob Mccart
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Aug 28 2025 16:15:20

Trying the mypoint php system from my Samsung a70 with this one. Not bad.


--- Original Message ---
From: Rob Mccart
Date: 2025-08-25 08:45:32
Subject: the offline way..

> AA>Yeah.. the current popular social sites are not really designed
>   >for dialog. They mostly seem to attract posts, rants, shares,
>   >#tags.
> Yes, I figured that. I guess youcan follow #tags to sort of
> see and join a conversation. (?)  That's a guess since, believe
> it or not, I've never even visited Facebook or any other of the
> popular onlive social media sites.
> RM> [...] Then the Global BBS feeds came out where you could
> RM> talk to people all over the world and it was amazing at
> RM> the time.
> AA>I was already familiar with a global outreach with Compuserve,
>   >and even newsgroups back in the 90s - it seemed amazing to get
>   >read and get replies by people from all over the world.
> Yes, I actually had people I knew from the BBS come and visit me
> here from Australia. Quite exciting at the time, and it was really
> early in the spring and very lucky that they could dr

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