The Most Important Thing I Learned on Usenet…
- Posted by Johanna on August 25, 2008 at 12:11 pm
- Category: LinkBlogging
… all those years ago was that complaining that you’re being picked on because people aren’t agreeing with you or trying to dictate how people are allowed to approach you is going to fail and likely bring you up for ridicule. The people you want to converse with don’t need to be told and the people who do aren’t going to listen.
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August 25, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Good point.
BTW, is there still a Usenet? I haven’t really looked, but was just curious. I’m not entirely sure how I would even access it these days.
August 25, 2008 at 4:43 pm
When I started reading this, I thought it would be about the topic today on Talk of the Nation about “cyber gossip” boards, which apparently are popular with the college kids these days.
August 25, 2008 at 5:00 pm
“is there still a Usenet?”
Yeah, there’s still a usenet, but things like blogs and meesage boards and personal websites and everything else have largely supplanted usenet as locus of interesting discussion.
You can poke around a bit via Google’s interface at http://groups.google.com if you’re interested in what’s become of the place…
August 25, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Oh, yeah, Usenet will always exist. These days it’s mostly used for trading binaries (music and movies and such) though.
Odessa, you mean this one? Haven’t heard it.
August 25, 2008 at 7:28 pm
yeah, it wasn’t that interesting (to me).
But, I’m not a college kid and try to avoid “no mod” message boards.
August 26, 2008 at 7:31 am
I find it fascinating how much ideas of privacy have changed … and I wonder when the resulting shocks will affect things in later generations.