re: OTD in 1999... young men suddenly had an interest in women's soccer

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Actually, aol was at its height back then. I consider aol the grandfather of social media.

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Then CompuServe was the great-grandfather. (I think AOL bought them out in the 90's.)

CompuServe - in the 80's. It was primitive but it had message boards and chat rooms and news articles you could share later in the early 90's.

Compuserve charged like $5 an hour in the mid-80's for the internet which is like $15 today. But it was the first to connect people on a large scale and share information before the 90's.