Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System
I used to visit a BBS semi-regularly during middle school, I had always enjoyed the simplicity of the basic text interface. Not that there was much going on, this was around 2008, so everything was long-dead by then. 
Reddit (and HN) has its voting system and 4chan has the bump system, but there&#x27;s something about newsgroups with the long-lived threads with email-length replies that really appeals to me. Will there ever be something as popular and &quot;open&quot; as newsgroups, where each user judges a post on its own merits instead of by what the rest of the community thinks? Or am I merely pining for a past that never really existed?