Feb
2010
My First Post
A recent friendly tweetbate (me/Rich/me/Rich/me) on whether forums are ’social media’ or not, reminded me of my first post ever on the interwebs.
1995. I was an art director in Boston. Netscape Navigator, and the ability to display graphics, had helped forward thinking brands seek an agency that could build this new thing called a web site.
More importantly, people were using the net to do what humans have always done. Connect and share.
You don’t have to be from San Francisco or Boston to understand how iconic Jerry Garcia was across generations of music fans. (But it helps.)
The day he died, was the first time ever I got my news from a web site rather than from TV, radio or a newspaper. At work, we all gathered around a computer screen, the way we used to do around a TV. That’s when I knew that the Internet had changed things forever. And I made my first post.
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As much as we all use it, I find the buzz phrase ’social media’ woefully misleading. The web has always been social. And, while I wish I was smart enough to grab this screen shot 15 years ago, the truth is: I didn’t. It’s still there (thank you Google). Proof, if you will, that there is nothing new about social media. It’s simply people using technology to connect and share about the things they care about.
