On 2/8/01 4:38 PM, "Tim Bowden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Remember when AOL connected to the Net and unleashed AOLers on Usenet
>> computer-savvy, newsgroups? Much moaning and groaning about the
>> declining level of users ensued. (And it was true.)
> I wonder if Usenet ever had this golden era. I don't know, I guess;
Yeah. To some degree it still is -- every generation thinks life is great,
and every previous generation thinks the new one screwed things up and the
good old days were better. If you really care, there are some interesting
links to some of the usenet-history mailing list archives available off of
my home page (www.chuqui.com), since I was involved...
> The Net back then was decidedly male,
> malevolent, and moronic, no matter they knew how to post articles
> properly.
As opposed to what it is today...
No, I won't go there. Other than to say a lot of what you see on the
internet depends on what you put in and where you go looking. There are
definitely areas of the net that agree with your definition, to generalize
the net to BE that is a horrible overgeneralization.
> Believe me, the influx of other humans, meaning women and those who may
> not have been older than sixteen but at least acted it, was a very
> definite improvement.
They were always there. Maybe they just saw you coming and hid. (grin)
--
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