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It was sparse. Strip away Facebook, Google, all the phone apps, all the commercial news sites, blogs, you're left with a a few specialist resources. Now imagine
by rb808 8y ago
It was sparse. Strip away Facebook, Google, all the phone apps, all the commercial news sites, blogs, you're left with a a few specialist resources. Now imagine without browsers, just ftp and email (for students, academics and a few tech companies only). That is about it. It was exciting and new but not really that useful. Usenet was a bit like Reddit but smaller and text only, and friendly, but that was the highlight for me.
- andyidsinga 8y agoI was trying get to come up with pretty much your exact comment ..sparse with a sense of excitement pretty much spot on!
- KineticLensman 8y ago> It was exciting and new but not really that useful Well, the FAQs under the comp.sci usenet newsgroup hierarchy were a truly awesome resource when I was a C++ dev in the early '90s.
- neffy 8y agoUsenet being "friendly" was not exactly my recollection of alt.politics.* Whatever happened to Serdar Argic?!
- macintux 8y agoSerdar Argic’s successors run a depressing amount of the world today.