For a long time I've wanted to revisit some the old Usenet stuff. I knew someone in the who ran a commercial usenet feed service in the early 90s and their whol

For a long time I've wanted to revisit some the old Usenet stuff. I knew someone in the who ran a commercial usenet feed service in the early 90s and their whole setup depended heavily on low level backplane configuration, number of spindles, disk rotation speed, etc. - a lot of details that AWS hides from most of us. Using everything I've learned about distributed systems in the last thirty years I bet I could build a really awesome news feed today. Of course the downside of Usenet was most people expected conversations to disappear after a couple weeks or a month but there was always some jerk that kept everything and refused to delete anything.