The Modem World
A Prehistory of Social Media
Kevin Driscoll's The Modem World traces the social and technical origins of online life through a close look at dial-up bulletin board systems, modem culture, and the phone network ecologies that shaped early communities; blending media archaeology, archival research, and personal narrative, it shows how hardware, local telephone pricing, sysops, and informal norms produced practices of identity, governance, and commerce that foreshadowed today's platforms, and reveals how the constraints and affordances of pre-Internet networks fostered creativity, dissent, and durable digital legacies.
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