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Not to get too old-timey or anything, but I knew members in the WELL, had an e-mail account in 1992, and was using Archie (Jughead and Veronica too--we were very resourceful then) before Mosaic came on the scene. Podcasts may be the new new thing, but--yawn--it's really a rather old thing. Social networks (the WELL, Free-Nets, MUD's, IRC) were past tense in 1994 (Rheingold's 'Virtual Communites,' et. al.). Well, maybe imperfect tense--Everything old is new again.