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Might as well share my weirdest proto social media thing.
9/11.
(I'm in Finland. This happened in the afternoon.)
I was leaving work. I distinctly remember a coworker being alarmed about news.
I turned to the usual news source. Slashdot. Massive bloody thread about airplanes hitting the World Trade Center.
OK, that's pretty bad.
I finally turn to TV news. ...OK, stuff is far more in flames than I expected. I think I caught one of the towers collapsing in live TV.
But the following days, my primary news source about 9/11 was, actually, IRC! There was a channel on Freenode where a bot posted headlines about 9/11 investigations. Because the actual news websites were bloody dead under the massive traffic.
Same for me, 19-20 years old working in a small IT department (i.e. lots of scrolling slashdot). Remember going out telling some people in the corridor outside my small office and noone believed me as Swedish news sites had not updated yet