17 Mar
2021
17 Mar
'21
10:38 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 02:04:36PM -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
Usenet was awesome when it was really small. Almost everyone connected
was an academic or some sort of scientist. I could post a question in
pretty much any discipline and wake up to an answer from someone smart.
I tried to get my dad to see it and uttered the fatal words:
"Usenet is so cool, I wish everyone was on it."
Yep, I'm the guy that ruined Usenet :-) I'm not, but I got my wish
and learned quantity is not the same as quality. I was pretty dumb
back in the day.
--lm
hey it's
1988 already
mail without Internet is pretty useless
And Usenet was tin cans and a string.