> It strikes me that if we left the Internet in the hands of the "old > timers", we'd be stuck in a world of 7-bit ascii remarking about the > latest breakthroughs with gopher. Because, in my experience, plain > text ascii is world that most old timers either live in or pine for.
Only by contrast, I think. > Usenet failed to scale. The mid-90's was when Internet adoption > truly took off and that's when Usenet broke. Anarchy reigned and new > newsgroups proliferated without rhyme or reason. It wasn't a failure of scaling; it was a failure to continue to function in the face of the September that never ended. While it's something we can never truly know, I believe Usenet would have scaled just fine if the net had merely gotten bigger, instead of fundamentally changing its demographics. That change co-happened with the scaling, but I think it wasn't the scaling that killed Usenet. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
