Yeesh! Does anyone remember Usenet? It was an efficient way to have a public conversation online, it had "threads," and people could use any of a number of cl

Yeesh! Does anyone remember Usenet? It was an efficient way to have a public conversation online, it had "threads," and people could use any of a number of clients to read it. I don't do Twitter, but its main value seemed to be limiting participants to 140 characters, i.e. a single sentence. It would be far easier and cheaper to do this by hosting a free NNTP server with analytics and ads.