On 8 Feb 01, at 20:34, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> 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. ...
Indeed, yes. Remember when NSF first enabled schools to connect to
the net willy-nilly, and was born the "September effect"? (of
course, now the .edu folks are nearly the elder-statesmen and
subsequent 'generations' have mutated that into "It's always
september somewhere on the Internet"].
Over the life of the net, virtually EVERY wave of arrivals has tried
to pull up the ladder behind them as they look in horror as the
_next_ wave of arrivals apparently is spoiling it all... Only us'uns
that have been on from the start are truly pure-of-heart..:o)
/Bernie\
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