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Reminds me of party lines and voice bulletin boards, perhaps created without awareness of them?

I haven't heard of these, (so you're right, created without awareness of them ;)

Could you send over some links so I could get further ideas and have a better understanding of the competitive landscape?

Thanks!

I assume he means Party Lines as in the phone system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)

---Alex

At this point, they're historical rather than part of the current competitive landscape, but in their time they were vibrant communities. Studying them is useful much as studying IRC would be useful for someone creating something like Slack.

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