Community Memory: Social Media Before the Web
In short: In 1973, Community Memory put a public computer terminal in a Berkeley record store, and the Computer History Museum calls it a pre-Web social network where anyone could post and search messages.
A 1:57 short film in the series “Being Social Online”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Computer History Museum (CHM), “Community Memory - Curator Picks - Online collections - CHM”; Computer History Museum, “Guide to the Community Memory records, 1964-2000”; Computer History Museum (article by David C. Brock, originally published in IEEE Spectrum), “An Early Door to Cyberspace: The Community Memory Terminal”; Computer History Museum, “Lee Felsenstein”; Computer History Museum (CHM Revolution online exhibition), “Community Memory terminal at Leopold’s Records, Berkeley, California - CHM Revolution”; Computer History Museum (CHM), “Community Memory: Precedents in Social Media and Movements”.
Sources used in this film
- Computer History Museum (CHM) — Community Memory - Curator Picks - Online collections - CHM · View →
- Computer History Museum — Guide to the Community Memory records, 1964-2000 · View →
- Computer History Museum (article by David C. Brock, originally published in IEEE Spectrum) — An Early Door to Cyberspace: The Community Memory Terminal · View →
- Computer History Museum — Lee Felsenstein · View →
- Computer History Museum (CHM Revolution online exhibition) — Community Memory terminal at Leopold’s Records, Berkeley, California - CHM Revolution · View →
- Computer History Museum (CHM) — Community Memory: Precedents in Social Media and Movements · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Computer History Museum (CHM): Community Memory - Curator Picks - Online collections - CHM
- Also: Computer History Museum: Guide to the Community Memory records, 1964-2000
- Also: Computer History Museum (article by David C. Brock, originally published in IEEE Spectrum): An Early Door to Cyberspace: The Community Memory Terminal
- Also: Computer History Museum: Lee Felsenstein
- Also: Computer History Museum (CHM Revolution online exhibition): Community Memory terminal at Leopold’s Records, Berkeley, California - CHM Revolution
- Also: Computer History Museum (CHM): Community Memory: Precedents in Social Media and Movements
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