It's interesting how a lot of what we now call "social media" or "online" culture was there before in zine culture, just lower tech
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I don't just mean publishing random articles and stories, I mean the random rants, the back and forth convos, the heated debates
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SF fandom is in the Internet's DNA. The first & for a long time only "social" channel on ARPAnet was the SF discussion mailing list
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ARPAnet was strictly supposed to be for military business but email was so convenient they started breaking that right away
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The first spam was interestingly someone on ARPAnet sending a mass email protesting the Vietnam War
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The very first spam email started the tradition of the giant reply-all email thread debating what to do about the spam email
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