@kdfrawg in 1979 I was 6. I had been exposed to a personal computer by that point (an Apple ][) but had no idea you could use one to communicate over vast distances…
Wow, have I really been communicating with people over computers and phone lines for 30 years now?
@indigo This made it a whole lot easier to find new people to follow that talk about things you're interested in.
// @matigo @larand @kdfrawg // @matigo @larand @kdfrawg
Meanwhile I am thinking about the threaded messaging system I coded myself in Apple Basic that was based on BBSes I used back in the mid 1980s. Every message could be the "root" of a new conversation. Didn't have a very good way to render the conversation tree…
@kdfrawg personally I'm not a fan of seeing only the conversation starter in my stream the way Plurk does it. What @matigo did here is somewhat of an improvement on the way Jaiku displayed the timeline.
// @larand @indigo
@larand a Google Image search on Jaiku gives several clearer screenshots.
// @matigo @indigo @kdfrawg
@larand It did… and was great on the Nokia phones of the day.
// @matigo @indigo @kdfrawg
@matigo She's already done some computer art [artheartga.deviantart.com]. It's a start.