Online discussion is a relatively new form of communication, facilitated usually by computer networks. Communication is the process of conveying information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium in which the communicated information is understood the same way A computer network is a group of interconnected Computers. Networks may be classified according to a wide variety of characteristics The first such communications were on mainframe-based systems such as the PLATO system in the early 1970s. PLATO was the first (circa 1960 on ILLIAC I) generalized Computer assisted instruction system By the mid 1980's, dial-up bulletin board systems or "BBS's" run by hobbyists on personal computers began to host online discussions, as well. A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a Computer system running software that allows users to connect and login to As networks became more sophisticated, and access to said networks became easier (such as through universities and "dial-up" access), networks like USENET hosted an immense range of discussions. Dial-up Internet Access is a form of Internet access via Telephone lines The user's computer or Router uses an attached Modem connected to a Usenet, a Portmanteau of "user" and "network" is a world-wide distributed Internet discussion system In the early 1990s, Internet relay chat became (and remains) popular. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 With the advent of the World wide web (WWW), myriad web forums have become new forums for discussion. The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. An, or message board, is a Bulletin board system in the form of a discussion site
Online discussion groups tend to have a social element to them similar to a clique. A clique ( IPA:/'klɪk/ in America /'kliːk/ elsewhere is an exclusive group of people who share interests views purposes patterns of behavior or ethnicity There are generally established leaders (perhaps the owner of the medium the communication travels across), as well as more and less frequent communicators (or "posters"). Additionally, a discussion of the social properties of online discussion would not be complete without mention of the internet troll. An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community such as an These social networks can be very dynamic, can contain many thousands of members, and can even originate swarms such as the 1999 Seattle protests. A smart mob is a form of self-structuring social organization through technology-mediated intelligent emergent behavior Protest activity surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, which was to be the launch of a new millennial round of Trade negotiations occurred
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