Twitter was founded in 2006

Was anyone here active on that platform, then?

Did it feel like Farcaster does now?

Yes, I was in twitter early on. I used to send text messages to post on it. Didn’t read much on it early on. That changed when I got a smartphone a couple years later

I like reading books. www.paperclypse.com

This SMS thing is so fascinating, were there other major apps on SMS?

I don’t remember any. That was the thing that made it so cool. I could post to the internet from my flip phone!

Classic, what was the feed?

A message for each post or a feed of posts in one message?

A message for each post. Also, I had to pay for each SMS! It was 10 cents each time. So I only wrote something when I had an idea I really liked.

Some people were probably smarter and had an SMS plan that didn’t cost them every time. 

It was bidirectional too. If you subscribed to someone, you could get their tweets as text messages. I was too cheap for that. That’s what got me going to twitter on the web

It's kind of like minting today on an L2, which actually makes a lot of sense now