Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> 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.

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