# Ars Technica artikel - Een geschiedenis van openbare online berichtenuitwisseling
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ars-technica-article-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/306139
**Category:** General
**Created:** [30 april 2024 om 12:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ars-technica-article-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/306139 "2024-04-30T12:05:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [30 april 2024 om 12:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ars-technica-article-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/306139/1 "2024-04-30T12:05:25Z")
> **[First post: A history of online public messaging](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/first-post-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/)**
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> From BBS to Facebook, here's how messaging platforms have changed over the years.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [30 april 2024 om 12:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ars-technica-article-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/306139/2 "2024-04-30T12:18:30Z")
Ouch!
I’m actually surprised that “social media” hasn’t plateaued more …
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### Author:  [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [30 april 2024 om 15:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ars-technica-article-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/306139/3 "2024-04-30T15:15:03Z")
I wonder if part of it not plateauing more is if the definition of “social media” has expanded over time.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [30 april 2024 om 15:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ars-technica-article-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/306139/4 "2024-04-30T15:16:12Z")
Yeah, I wondered that too Jim
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### Author:  [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [30 april 2024 om 15:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ars-technica-article-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/306139/5 "2024-04-30T15:20:32Z")
🙂
I mean, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Tumblr, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Mastodon, Bluesky, to name a “few”…most tend to have different structures for communication, whereas I imagine Fidonet, BBS, and PLATO were pretty specific.
But I’m glad someone posted this article, as I’ve often wanted to learn more about some of these older forms of internet communication, so thank you for posting it EricGT
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [30 april 2024 om 15:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ars-technica-article-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/306139/6 "2024-04-30T15:32:43Z")
Looks a little more plateau-like with a logarithmic scale
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [30 april 2024 om 15:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ars-technica-article-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/306139/7 "2024-04-30T15:37:14Z")
There is something like 10 BBS-users left, not bad 🤣
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [30 april 2024 om 15:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ars-technica-article-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/306139/8 "2024-04-30T15:38:07Z")
That looks better.
I like that PLATO actually plateau’s!
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### Author:  [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [30 april 2024 om 18:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ars-technica-article-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/306139/9 "2024-04-30T18:51:42Z")
> [@jimkleiber](#):
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> But I’m glad someone posted this article, as I’ve often wanted to learn more about some of these older forms of internet communication, so thank you for posting it EricGT
I thoroughly enjoyed this article. Despite being someone who studied electrical/computer engineering and then intercultural communication, I had been quite unfamiliar with the history of public communication amongst computers. I recommend it to anyone who may have heard of such terms but don’t know how they all fit together. So again, thank you.