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Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past

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On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, bad sector wrote:

> On 02/23/2014 05:55 PM, RS Wood wrote:
>> Anybody remember this cartoon from 1996?
>> 
>> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GhostOfUsenetPostingsPast
>> 
>> I first saw it attached to this Salon article about the geeks who saved
>> Usenet (by helping Google archive DejaNews and other archives a while
>> back).
>> 
>> http://www.salon.com/2002/01/08/saving_usenet/
>> 
>> It's a great read, if you haven't already seen it.  Highly recommended.
>
> I'm worried about the survial of usenet, so many newcomers get sucked right 
> into web hosted forums that usenet *is* dying and in that respect google 
> ain't no help
>
In the old days, everyone at least knew about usenet.

Then as the masses came, their internet experience was different, often 
learning from friends "there's this awesome thing called myspace...".

This is why fewer and fewer ISPs carry Usenet, not only is there less 
demand, but since the users are spread over a lot more ISPs, each has a 
limited number of users, and thus not worth the cost.  People should be 
giving a consideration to small ISPs, but unlike in the old days, what 
matters is price, and now you don't even have to have your email address 
tied to an ISP.

The days when the internet was revolutionary are gone, lost to the masses 
that make change by their mass rather than by intelligence and making 
actual decisions.

SO many have come so late that they don't even know the old internet. 
They can't see anything wrong with "yelp" becuase they never saw usenet, 
never saw the internet when commerce didn't come first.  And the illusion 
is that they are using facebook and twitter, but most of the time they are 
just following along, so they dont' think about how facebook puts a wall 
in the way, an announcement there may not be found from the actual 
internet.

I've seen groups that condemn advertising trucks (a pickup truck with a 
billboard in back, no purpose other than to show off the billboard) and 
commercial sponsorship of festivals think nothing of having a facebook 
page.

   Michael

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Ghost of Usenet Postings Past RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-23 22:55 +0000
  Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past bad sector <forgetski@postit_INVALID_.gov> - 2014-02-23 18:19 -0500
    Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-02-24 08:33 +0100
      Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-24 23:29 +0000
        Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 10:27 +0000
          Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-02-25 16:05 +0100
            Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 15:22 +0000
            Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Conceited Jerk <cj.speakeasy@AAARGHgmail.com> - 2014-02-25 15:42 -0600
      Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 13:34 -0500
    Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> - 2014-02-24 07:39 +0000
      Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-24 03:52 +0000
        Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-24 23:30 +0000
          Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-02-25 16:06 +0100
    Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 13:27 -0500
  Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-02-25 10:54 -0300
    Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2014-02-25 13:32 -0600
      Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-02-26 11:12 -0300
      Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 13:48 -0500
  Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-02-25 06:03 -0800
  Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 13:22 -0500

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