Most active newsgroups 1987 – Guess the top three

I thought this was amusing/surprising. From Life with Unix (1989), p224-5 : Statistics indicate that the ten most active newsgroups (in order of activity) at the beginning of 1987 were: soc.singles discussions related to being single soc.women discussions of women’s issues rec.humor jokes, limericks, and other humor comp.sys.ibm.pc discussions related to IBM micros and clones comp.unix.questions questions related to UNIX comp.sources program sources rec.autos discussions about automobiles misc.consumers discussions of consumer interests comp.unix.wizards discussion of experienced UNIX users comp.lang.c discussion of the C programming language Yes, that’s right. The topic of interest to most Usenet readers is single’s issues. From our research, we conclude that a UNIX programmer is three times more likely to use Usenet to discuss what to do on a date than how to implement shareable libraries. Just remember to delete the first three newsgroups from the top of this list before trying to use it to justify Usenet to your local management.