[Industrialblog,
April 23, 2004]
Predecessor to Blogs
And then it hit me while reading on Misha's site about various troubles with trolls ... a predecessor to blogs was the various discussions written on the bathroom stall walls in college libraries. You know, before they made them stainless steel. You used to have an opinion written by someone, and then comments that followed from there.
I recall one such wall. It contained picture of a submarine. Underneath, someone else wrote an amusing Freudian analysis on what the picture meant. Which led to a rebuttal. Then a rebuttal to the rebuttal. Then threats. Then counter-threats. Then other people chimed in here and there. Now, what's the remind you of? A blog entry and a comment thread that goes awry.
Blogging in cyber-space: Bringing bathroom walls to your living room since 2000.
I recall one such wall. It contained picture of a submarine. Underneath, someone else wrote an amusing Freudian analysis on what the picture meant. Which led to a rebuttal. Then a rebuttal to the rebuttal. Then threats. Then counter-threats. Then other people chimed in here and there. Now, what's the remind you of? A blog entry and a comment thread that goes awry.
Blogging in cyber-space: Bringing bathroom walls to your living room since 2000.