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The geeks who saved Usenet (2002)
- ck2 15y ago1981 usenet is hard to fathom. But the first 5 1/4 hard drive came out in 1980 so it's possible some ancient history is buried somewhere in a landfill.
- doctoboggan 15y agoSometimes I wish I was old enough to have experienced the early days of the internet, and then I remember that we are still in the early days of the internet. Is it possible to get nostalgic for the present?
- dreamdu5t 15y agoInteresting that the Arpanet list was lost... Causes you to wonder what is being lost now.
- jasonkester 15y agoIronic title, considering that Google actually could have saved the Usenet when they took the DejaNews archives and spun them into Google Groups. All they needed to do was invest in some basic spam filtering and they could have gotten on top of it. But they didn't. And the Usenet died in a sea of uncontested spam. The amazing thing is that nothing rose up to replace it. Everybody pretty much just gave up. Maybe a few communities limped on in the form of phpbb boards, but not in the same sense. Rec.climbing, alt.surfing, sci.space.tech, and all the comp.sci.programming groups pretty much just evaporated into nothingness. If somebody had come along and simply tried to keep it all going, I can't imagine it not working. But nobody did.
- rwl4 15y agoI was reading a very old thread from the 80's once and felt the urge to reply not thinking of the date of the OP. Then I looked at the date of the post and it suddenly hit me how much time had passed and if I were to reply the original author has no chance of ever seeing my reply... Trips me out. Anybody else experienced anything like this?