Someone's recreating the 1960 Presidential campaign on Twitter!

The idea of information technology somehow advancing 50 years circa 1940 fascinates me. I like to imagine how desegregation / civil rights, Vietnam protests, hell, even the Moon landing would have been discussed online. Prolly a page of people saying "OMG THEY'RE ON THE MOON WTF" and "the Nasa site is down". "404 wtf?"

I wonder how it would have been different. Groups like KKK or the Freedom Riders organising themselves on Twitter, J. Edgar Hoover closing down Facebook's servers. The British government forbidding Youtube to play "Rock and Roll". The Beatles complaining about illegal MP3 downloads.

I'd imagine theres some sort of primitive discussion stuff on the old academic networks (I once saw a Usenet posting of the very first spam email circa 1982) but this is very sparse.

In general, I love reading about the news in different perspectives. During the Israeli-Gaza incursion, it was fascinating to read about the news on both the Israeli and Al Jazeera news sites, i.e. what they each reported on, and what they left out.

In a world where this happens, does...

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Topic: re: Israel invades Southern Lebanon
Poster: BarryOb61
Date: March 16th, 1978

OMFG Israel thinks it can get away with anything. Once again, another attack on us Muslims.

P.S. My profile location says Hawaii but I was born in Kenya.

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cost someone an election? Expect to see your 2030 era presidential candidates burned by their online histories!

A Manchester United forum I read has a database spanning back to 2001. A fun past time amongst the regulars there is "necro bumping". i.e. finding reactionary/uninformed posts from board members saying XX is a terrible player, esp. when that player has later signed for Manchester United and become a favourite.
 
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