On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:02:49 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
> wrote:
>On Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 2:33:42 AM UTC-10, Boron Elgar wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:12:44 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
>> > wrote:
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>> >> > Usenet just ain't usenet anymore. Back in the old days, the posters were mostly from military, educational, scientific, research, institutions. They used the facilities available through their institutions and therefor, were in fact, representing their organizations. My guess is that any bad behavior was easily squelched by being held responsible for your words. These days, all those right and proper people and replaced by the socially, morally, and mentally, inept. Back in the old days, bad behavior would be going off topic. That's the breaks.
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>> >> > https://groups.google.com/g/rec.food...m/XKTmFKanfKYJ
>> >> I guess you can blame AOL for that.
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>> They came into it later
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>> >Steve Case carved out his place in history by democratising/popularizing Usenet. That was probably not a good thing to do. That's like shooting a mocking bird. I don't think that's such a big deal since the Original Posters have moved on to their own outlets of professional interchange. These days, Usenet is just a reflection of our dysfunctional/disenfranchised/disgruntled society. That's the breaks.
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>> I used Compuserve in the late 80s - GEnie a bit earlier.
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>I used Prodigy, which seemed like the future because of it's graphical interface. In fact, it was the future. What a time that was - the world at your fingertips! It was sold by Sears.
Ha,,,almost forgot about Prodigy.
Across those email functions of those several platforms I came close
to having text messaging before it existed. It was a bit complicated,
always a minute or so out of sync, but I'd have two or three
conversations running at once.
I like to think I was one of those who made CompuServe top off the
numbers of email sent. One month I had over 3K emails to a friend. We
just chatted back and forth by email like crazy so it was almost real
time...not quite, but as close as one could get in a non-public forum.