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  • Re: BBSes today

    From Grease@VERT/DARKMATT to Nightfox on Saturday, August 15, 2020 11:10:00
    On 08-14-20 21:44, Nightfox mumbled to Andeddu about Re: BBSes today.

    Re: Re: BBSes today
    By: Andeddu to Nightfox on Sat Aug 15 2020 12:02 am

    I think pre-smartphone everyone struggled with messaging which is why we ended up with text speak. After around 2008, things got a lot easier... I

    What is "text speak"?

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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to Nightfox on Saturday, August 15, 2020 17:13:26
    Re: Re: BBSes today
    By: Nightfox to Andeddu on Fri Aug 14 2020 09:44 pm

    Re: Re: BBSes today
    By: Andeddu to Nightfox on Sat Aug 15 2020 12:02 am

    What is "text speak"?

    it is gr8 2 spk 2 u 2nyt. ty 4 ur rply.

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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to Nightfox on Saturday, August 15, 2020 17:17:48
    Re: Re: BBSes today
    By: Nightfox to Andeddu on Fri Aug 14 2020 09:45 pm

    TikTok is the new Vine. It's one of the most popular social media platforms among young adults/kids.

    Vine is something I'm not really familiar with either.. :P


    Haha, coming across all these massively popular social media apps which you've never heard of before can make you feel positively one-hundred years old.

    I hadn't heard of Vine either until after it died in 2017. It was particularly big in the USA.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Andeddu on Saturday, August 15, 2020 15:17:08
    Re: Re: BBSes today
    By: Andeddu to Nightfox on Sat Aug 15 2020 05:17 pm

    I hadn't heard of Vine either until after it died in 2017. It was particularly big in the USA.

    There are some things I guess I don't pay much attention to. There's a TV show called Breaking Bad, which was apparently fairly popular, but I had never heard of it until there was a news story that it was in its last season. :P

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