rodbishop on Nostr: I reminisce about those days too. I remember them so well. I came from BBS to ICQ and ...

I reminisce about those days too. I remember them so well. I came from BBS to ICQ and MSN chat in my mid teens. It was like, the thing that helped me recover from another crappy day at school. And I feel a lot of that vibe returning here on Nostr.

But still, fundamentally I learned to use Webcrawler and Altavista to, as a user, discover a publisher, which (putting aside Geocities for a moment) was usually a business.

I never would have considered that publishers would fight to seek me out. But that's where I think we may be going.

I think the script is going to flip from internet dominated by service providers, to one dominated by user intent.