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Subject: Re: Why are there so few messages in these Mac newsgroups now?
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Király <ggrandish@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 8:07:05 AM UTC-7, Robert Lord wrote:
> > I've been using Usenet for many years and found that there never was a 
> > time when a big percentage of Mac users knew what Usenet was and is.

> I said internet users, not Mac users. Back when the internet was still
> text-based and accessed through terminal windows, Usenet was one of the main
> pillars of the internet. Usenet, email, telnet, ftp, and gopher were all we
> had, and we were happy, dammit! 

> If you were on the internet far back enough, you knew about Usenet.
>  
Ha, let's talk about BBSes before Internet was the thing. Remember 
FidoNet, door games, etc.? ;)
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