Jim Brown reviewed The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll
Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created …
Federated Social Media's Lineage
If you're interested in federated social media (and I know that you are), you should check out this book. What's happening here on Bookwyrm shares a lot with the BBSs that Driscoll talks about in this book.
I was especially into the chapter on FidoNet given that I have been thinking for a couple of years about how much ActivityPub/Mastodon/Bookwyrm/etc. owe to FidoNet's attempts to "federate" (not the term they would have used) Bulletin Board Systems.