Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back again
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#2If anyone is wondering, Usenet is still alive.
Re: Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back again
#3If anyone is wondering, Usenet is still alive.
Well, at least it's sort of not dead.
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#4If anyone is wondering, Usenet is still alive.
It is. But it's not where the majority of the discussion happens these days.
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#5I'm going to write a chat app built on IRC that gradually uses more and more RAM, and adds new features while breaking old ones.
Just as it has everything MSN used to have ill have it shut down, rename itself and its website and start all over again.
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#6If anyone is wondering, Usenet is still alive.
Well, at least it's sort of not dead.
I just reposted this article to comp.misc, where we've been keeping up a parallel discussion for years. Usenet doesn't have the sheer numbers it used to, but anyone still there is there because we love it. Usenet's flaws remain unmended, but its strengths remain unfettered. :)
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#7> Once was IRC
Seriously?
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#8If anyone is wondering, Usenet is still alive.
Recommendations on a good Windows client?
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#9What do you think about Reddit? Topics are enforced and have an API.
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#10With all due respect, what changed since the 56k days (which I remember fondly as well) is that people showed up. Before that, the only users on the internet were early adopters. It's unreasonable to expect 'those people' to go away.