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by bcjdjsndon 19 days ago
> Neither IRC nor BBS* use algorithms to create feeds of third party content based on user preference,

Both bbs and irc had top user features that encouraged users to post, bbs certainly had third party content sorted and presented to the user by algorithm.

The reason the definition is so vague is because it's largely driven by parental hysteria and can be ignored as such