CNN The Nineties February 13, 2022 07:14:00
I didn't come out to my mother till much later, but i was out on the internet. >> in many respects, aol was one of the first social media companies. >> computer communication is not like human communication. there's no facial expression to help you know which way something ambiguous is meant. so the isolated communicators of cyberspace have come up with little signs made out of punctuation marks. they're called emoticons. >> you were using text to have a conversation that felt like a face-to-face communication. you could see the start of this new online culture. >> it's a technological revolut...