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Heh, as far back as then Ken T. already knew the score: ) writing to news just causes more ) misunderstandings in the future. there ) is no way to win. Pret
by foobarian 4y ago
Heh, as far back as then Ken T. already knew the score:
) writing to news just causes more
) misunderstandings in the future. there
) is no way to win.
Pretty amazing insight!
- xmprt 4y agoI don't think it's some super novel insight by him. The news has existed for many centuries and at least to some extent, it has created misunderstandings as long as it has existed.
- foobarian 4y agoSee, exactly! He meant writing to newsgroups, which were relatively new at that time. Or did he? :-)
- segfaultbuserr 4y agoOne can find precursors of nearly every aspect of the modern social media back in newsgroups from the Usenet era during the 1980s and 1990s, including cat memes. Unix developer Rob Pike even invented role-play trolling in the 1980s on Usenet (mostly manually, but an automated bot was also tried). Back then it was a harmless hoax, and today on the modern web it's now causing massive troubles. [0] Old-timers like Ken Thompson clearly have understood the nature of a social network since a long time ago. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney#History