Brett Borders wrote a history of social media post a while back where he marks the start of the social media era in the 1950's with phone hacking (hackers would break into corporate voicemail systems and leave podcast-esque messages and respond to comments in the next “episode”).

But it goes even further back. But I'll argue that social media goes even further back. Centuries further, from my short post about how social media is not new:

“The first (and only) edition of the paper was published in 1690 with a blank page at the end for readers to write comments and pass along. That’s right, a newspaper was the first media form to encourage readers to write and share comments.”

That's not a type, the first multi-page newspaper published in the US, in 1690, had a comments section.

By Tyler's (and I'll agree with him), that newspaper was for sure a form of social media. It was a medium that encouraged social interaction.

I get a good kick when the mainstream media gets all riled up about this “new” technology…”using tools to communicate with people…how revolutionary!”

LOL.

Nicely played, Stuart. Nicely played…