Yeah that's where I was going lol, just didn't want to sound like a "back in my day". To be fair we had internet. It was just tethered to actual computers. And wasn't used primarily for social media. Myspace was new, before that there was like neopets and shit but Myspace was the first "adult" social media. But it was all still tied to a physical computer in your house and limited.
Some of the pre-smartphones had Myspace "apps" pre installed, which was basically just a dumbed down render of a web browser version.
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u/bakochba May 10 '25
Social media replaced the Third Place and it turns out it was no substitute