Is Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ Really Social Media?

I started using the internet in 1987, when I was at Columbia University and through that connection was given an internet email account. The ‘information superhighway’ was still restricted to only government and military employees, then was opened up to academic staff, and finally became a communication device for anyone with a desktop computer in 1994.

Remember Netscape? This was the first internet browser with a graphics interface which went public in 1994. By 1998, you could find not only desktop computers but laptops in every office, and just about every machine was running an operating system called Windows, which was imbedded in the internet browser desktop known as Internet Explorer in 1995.

As opposed to traditional communication platforms like radio and TV, the internet was touted as being both more modern and more efficient because it was interactive and did not require the kind of government regulatory activity and licensing that was done by the Federal Communications Commission, i.e., the FCC.

Want to start your own programming over the internet? Simple enough — just buy your own domain for a few bucks, rent some space on an ISP, hire someone to create a website or do it yourself and away you go.

I put up my first website in 1995. It was a site which allowed users to post…