Remember when Twitter – or shall I say Twttr – first came to life? It was back in March 2006, when founder Jack Dorsey published his first message.
just setting up my twttr
— jack (@jack) March 21, 2006
But Jack could well have been inspired from Amiga World Magazine…. 18 years earlier!
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Back in 1988, the Internet isn’t doing much yet, and social networks as we know them surely did not exist.
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But, according to a find by the Minitel Research Lab, Amiga World magazine may have already been predicting the “tweet” on its cover, 18 years before the first tweet was actually published!
looking at copy of Amiga World from 1988, learning about "going online", and there is a guy, literally, "#tweeting" pic.twitter.com/A5VuEaV9rR
— Minitel Research Lab (@MinitelResearch) July 30, 2015
So, real prediction or simple inspiration for little Jack, who was only about 12 years old back in 1988?
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