Before Internet, before social media there was Heta Linjen (Hot line). I used it a lot during my youth years. I met friends with my friends and we had parties and a lot of fun. It was a alternative way to meet new people. We usually met people with a friend, so it felt safer.
Well, it was really a “mistake” by the design of Switch boards for phone calls with no receiver. We where grouped together to a group conversation and we could talk. So really having the Internet and Skype and Facebook… is really old news for someone like me. I used social media long before we even new Facebook. And I do not use Facebook. Not for me, if I am not forced to use it.
Well, in todays DN.se they write that this old form of social media by telephony has turned 30 years old this year. In the newspaper it says that they used it for gathering to demonstrate… interesting, this I did not know, afterall I was pretty young and didn´t know about Heta linjen until high school. At Tekniska museet (technical museum) there is a exhibition about it.
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