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I dislike "this new thing is just that old thing" analogies. Someone on HN once tried to argue with me that the old unix talk utility was no different from Twitter.

Just because it's a computerized container for human communication doesn't mean it's the same idea. I mean, when you get down to it, it's all strings.



Even more so it's just electrons pulsing through copper or light through glass.


/away on IRC or IM status are pretty much Twitter too.




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