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Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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Is this their first platform death? Come on, Wired!
Millennials have been losing platforms on the Internet for pretty much the whole history of the Internet. Just a handful of "social media" type services that have risen and fallen in my years of the internet: AOL Instant Message, ICQ, IRC, Usenet, LiveJournal, MySpace, on and on.
Most of these aren't even properly "dead", many I just.mentioned still have big user groups too. They just lost a critical user share when folks moved on.
How about gaia? No one is on it anymore. That's where I first started to learn HTML.
Oldest Millennials were almost too old for Gaia. We were 18-22 at it's launch in 2003.
I got my start on Alamak Chat in late 1995 but I had friends who had already been on IRC or Usenet for years prior to that.
Usenet is still quite active. Especially in the piracy field, as a forum for discussion, it's pretty dead though.