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# The History of Online Communities
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2008/05/the_history_of_online_communit/
- Published: 2008-05-16T16:57:36.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:12:42.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: community

This is pretty essential viewing, giving people some context on how online communities have developed. And no, it’s not just a Web 2.0 thing:

\[Via \[Kristine\](http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine\_lowe/2008/05/your-grandchild.html)\]

I was trying to work out the other day how long I’d been participating in virtual communities of various sorts, I think the answer is “13 years”, starting with a mailing list for a game back in 1995\. This is a topic I ought to revisit. I \*might \*even explain how I became the Ashtray on the Edge of Oblivion. 

But then again, maybe not.