Before the eternal September, the structure and form of usenet encouraged discussions that were just qualitatively different than what I enjoy on reddit these d

Before the eternal September, the structure and form of usenet encouraged discussions that were just qualitatively different than what I enjoy on reddit these days. My cringe wasn't due to a bad analogy. I was cringing because I remember what usenet was like once, and the last time I spent much time there, it had lost so much of what made it good that, yes, comparing newsgroups to subreddits is essentially on point, now. I cringed because the analogy is on target and I don't like that as much as I liked usenet before. Comparing it to reddit gives a pretty good picture of late stage usenet for people who didn't experience it. At one time (I think including the time period this article is covering) there was more to it than that, though.