Social media has been around for longer than you might think. While still at school and long before anyone had even heard the term “Facebook” (linked to a website), I used to run a Bulletin Board System (or BBS) . People would dial in to our house phone number, and they could access features in this system, which included such things as a “wall” – a term that is now familiar to anyone using Facebook and with a very similar idea. There was also a messaging network that allowed communication across other BBS, known as FidoNet (still running to this date).
While the BBS world was fun ...
