Oh, let me tell you about the real community young one, Usenet. Once upon a time, there was this system where servers collaborated and exchanged posts overnigh

Oh, let me tell you about the real community young one, Usenet. Once upon a time, there was this system where servers collaborated and exchanged posts overnight with this dark magic called UUCP. In the morning you would wake up, and messages, discussions and such would be structured, and organized in a sane, logical manner! That is right! We did it both ways, uphill, in shorts! We good import certain "branches" into our BBSes, respond, and then at night we dialed up the nearest BBS or system and exchanged our messages. Sooner or later the entire collection was exchanged, and everyone was up to date. Not just that, you could slice off a piece and then splice it back in (FidoNet), and it still worked! You can have a discussion in comp.compression and lo, people would discuss only compression! You wanted to chat about something off the wall? You can find it under the alt. branch, and lo people talked off the wall stuff! There is nothing new under the sun.