Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet … - Howard Rheingold

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I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.

Howard Rheingold

Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.

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