How did the Borg Collective get started?

[Wilson23]

Every species they assimilate is numbered, so there must be a species 1, right? Presumably some species with individual minds somehow developed a hive mind based on mechanically assisted telepathy.

I'm thinking the process started with iPhones . . .

 

[Wilson23]

And it definitely involved people spending time on messageboards. They couldn't bear to be without them for a moment, so they demanded phones wired into their nervous systems.

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

lol borg

 

[Wilson23]

lol borg

Obviously from "cyborg," improbable as it would be for an extraterrestrial culture to coin that name.

 

[Wilson23]

Historians think it goes back to when blortball went pro. All those eyes watching the same games at the same time . . .

 

[LeahWill]

Every species they assimilate is numbered, so there must be a species 1, right? Presumably some species with individual minds somehow developed a hive mind based on mechanically assisted telepathy.

I'm thinking the process started with iPhones . . .

The French Open tennis tournament 1974.
The man was a machine.