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sprinkleeninow

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8. Here we go. I don't consider DU *social media*.

Reply to Celerity (Reply #7)

Mon Oct 13, 2025, 03:49 AM

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I first signed on in 2002 actually.

I don't remember back then if there were Farcebook et al.

I also joined AOL message boards around '95, i.e. an Internet Forum.

I don't consider DU to be one of them *social media* things of which the name alone bugs me.

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