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That's interesting because I look at the date of 2006 and the drawing and say he was about a year or so behind The Facebook's status update.
and they’re all years behind AIM profile updates with the hottest linkin park lyrics
It's interesting how two veery big services came from the idea of setting up a real-time status. Early Twitter as I remember was that when you post the status your followers would get an SMS notification with the status. Jack mentions that here of a real-time status and also the same for WhatsApp. Where WhatsApp inventors thought about a way to set up a real-time status. But they pivoted to something different. Only…
That's interesting because I look at the date of 2006 and the drawing and say he was about a year or so behind The Facebook's status update.
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who would have thought it would turn into POTUS chief medium of communication then
In their defence, it's unlikely that the situation would have been much different without Twitter. There are plenty of other ways for narcissists to micro-publish on the Internet.
If we had the sketch to how toilet paper was first developed would we hold it this level of reverence? What is the fascination with such trivial technologies grabbing a mindshare?
Seeing Jack's drawing and reading the description on how Twitter took 5-6 years from "idea" to first implementation shows that this system/method works (at least it worked for him). I do not claim I will design the next twitter-size-business, but hey, it is a mental exercise.
I believe that many in this forum have the imagination, methodology, discipline to build on an idea, and we see plenty of "Show HN" to prove this right.
If the invention of toilet paper has an equally exciting story.. (I read about it a few days ago)(not exciting imho)(great thing for humanity though!)
If we had the sketch to how toilet paper was first developed would we hold it this level of reverence? What is the fascination with such trivial technologies grabbing a mindshare?
Yes, of course. In fact, it'd probably be a museum piece.
> What is the fascination with such trivial technologies grabbing a mindshare?
The same as with your fascination with this fascination; ie., we like to try to understand what makes people do what they do. There's an inner sociologist in most of us.
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In their defence, it's unlikely that the situation would have been much different without Twitter. There are plenty of other ways for narcissists to micro-publish on the Internet.
Yep. Hell, I'm narcissistically micro-publishing right now!