I’m 50, and I can tell you exactly what happened - AOL. Plus the death of the BBS. Usenet started changing radically in the late 90s, and the independence BBS o

I’m 50, and I can tell you exactly what happened - AOL. Plus the death of the BBS. Usenet started changing radically in the late 90s, and the independence BBS operators had wasn’t appealing enough to keep them running dial up services, nor was it generally appealing enough to keep people logging in over modem when the baby internet was available. All that said, I want to be clear that I’m still partial to TCL - an elegant highly usable language, and happy to fight you over it.