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.

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

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