{"video_id":"97NcG8hj9WE","title":"The History of Online Communication","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2017-05-06T14:58:16Z","duration_s":410,"segments":[{"start_s":0.52,"end_s":7.0,"text":"these days there is a dizzying number of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.4,"end_s":11.2,"text":"chat and communication apps for your smartphone or tablet I mean it only","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.92,"end_s":16.32,"text":"takes a couple of seconds to open up the app store or the Play store and find","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.799,"end_s":21.72,"text":"literally dozens of offerings that all promise to be the best most fun and most","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.279,"end_s":26.679,"text":"intuitive way to do essentially the same thing send messages photos or short","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.72,"end_s":32.96,"text":"videos to your friends or enemies as it were but all 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communication apps for your smartphone or tablet I mean it only takes a couple of seconds to open up the app store or the Play store and find literally dozens of offerings that all promise to be the best most fun and most intuitive way to do essentially the same thing send messages photos or short videos to your friends or enemies as it were but all of the modern programs we use to stay in touch that are more or less carbon copies of each other are the product of Decades of evolution from predecessors that were dramatically different so while email is often considered to predate Modern instant messaging by a fair margin they actually didn't first appear all that far apart from each other the modern form of email that uses the familiar at sign was invented back in 1971 on the old arpanet a US military Network that was one of the forerunners of the internet and realtime online chat became a reality just 2 years later in 1973 when the archetypically Retros sounding Taco mtic was created at the University of Illinois although ttic only featured six rooms of up to five users each the functionality was similar to modern chat rooms including the IRC system with its large number of channels that appeared a decade and a half later in 1988 and there have been other improvements like typewriters T comatic punished users for typos because it transmitted individual keystrokes as they were input meaning that all your Elite hacker buddies would know instantly if you didn't know how to correctly spell diarrhea fun fact too ttic is actually still available as a modern website if you'd like to check out a piece of internet history but online chat quickly outgrew small groups communicating directly and many were more interested in seeing what larger groups of people were discussing more generally that's where using a phone modem to connect to a bulletin board system or BBS comes in it's pretty much what it sounds like after logging in you could see what other folks posted to a virtual bulletin board and make your own contributions if you wanted to weigh in much like modern web message boards or forums the first BBS was launched in Chicago all the way back in 1978 providing a place for open online discussion well before the rise of the worldwide web and they proved to be very versatile in fact people began using bbs's for file sharing as well meaning they became very popular in the early 1990s however during the web's explosive growth soon after the BBS scene was nearly forgotten by the late 9s though it continues to be popular in Taiwan for some reason and speaking of continuing to be popular the venerable uset developed at Duke University all the way back in 1980 still has a considerable if not large following to this day uset is organized into topical sections called news groups that allow users to post both articles and replies kind of similar to how Reddit works today except instead of being hosted on one server uset is much more distributed with 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