Re: Remember when?


"Miss Elaine Eos" <Misc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Unc G <unclegrumpy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 29, 3:43 am, mary <marya...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Over 60% of the popular usenet groups from
the late 70's have gone! Gone Totally!

Did you mean late 90s?

Usenet began in 1980 on an extremely small scale.

Many usenet groups (and, indeed, the usenet hierarchy) began life as
shared BBS files over things like fido-net and similar, back into the
70s.

To folks who were there, it all just evolved on a smooth (?!) continuum
into what we today call "usenet", even though it wasn't called usenet --
and, as you point out, there WASN'T A usenet in its current
technological form -- back then.

Similarly, some people did Web 3.0-type things back in the 90s, too.
The main difference is: back then, we just called it "the internet",
which is also not-quite-precise.

I know a few people who refer to SMS messaging as "phone chat" and
AIM-alikes as "web-IRC." "All same-same!"

Then again, when I call my ISP and tell them there's a problem with the
Usenet server, most younger techies (under 30 or so) don't know what I'm
talking about -- they think it's an email system.



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