Post #2583288

2022-11-08 13:20 UTC

@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social Not to forget the weird times a little bit later when someone invented Retweets RT @ which was weird because you further reduced the remaining chars.

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@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social 2022-11-08 13:22

@bkastl@mastodon.social oh right!! It's super interesting how I had to dig out all those memories of the early days. It all seems so obvious now, but it really was quite brain-bending back then. I remember when my professor introduced me to Twitter and I thought: wtf this is never going to go anywhere.

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@webrocker@mastodon.social 2022-11-08 15:08

@bkastl@mastodon.social @bastianallgeier@mastodon.social I know that I first thought "RT" was shor for "reply to" and I used it in that sense for a bit, confusing my 5 readers back then… until a friendly soul (rip b00gie) nudged me in the right direction 😃

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@Clionam@mastodon.ie 2022-11-08 23:16

@bkastl@mastodon.social @bastianallgeier@mastodon.social I remember that, had totally forgotten about the RT taking up more chars! Gas now to think of it.

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