I miss BBSes, Usenet, EFnet, Puzzle Pirates, and a few web forums. They all kind of exist, but they were mostly supplanted by bigger, more centralized things.

I miss BBSes, Usenet, EFnet, Puzzle Pirates, and a few web forums. They all kind of exist, but they were mostly supplanted by bigger, more centralized things. All of them had a part in their own demise, too. Then in turn those bigger, more centralized things have tended to screw things up.