Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

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

> > 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.
> But isn't it that very "changing demographics" that makes the
> Internet what it is today?

Yes - well, at least in large part.

Your "but" seems to imply that you consider this a good thing, which I
definitely do not.  Today's net has a few good characteristics, as
compared to the NSFnet days, but it's got a lot more bad ones.  I've
occasionally thought, with greater and greater frequency in the last
10-15 years, that I'd rather have the old net back even at the prices
that would entail.

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