• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Hold up.

    I think that mobile phones became popular before chat rooms.
    Chat rooms existed first, but I think that they were mostly just for nerds until the early to mid 2000s

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      Cell phones were only for grown ups and maybe rich kids, but anyone could install instant messaging software on the family computer.

      Everyone I knew in high school, even if I wasn’t friends with them, had AIM and even Facebook before all of them had phones, because phones cost money.