I was on Usenet starting in 1984 when I was working at JPL/NASA. The modern hypertext-based internet and "world wide web" dates from around 1993 when the first web browsers started to appear. That's about when I stopped looking at Usenet and other archaic-isms from the 1980s. Email lists became popular a little earlier than the web browsers, and many of the groups I still participate in are still on email services that were first defined in 1990 and 1991.
G > On Jan 10, 2023, at 7:02 PM, Comcast <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don’t mean to disparage Usenet. Just pointing out that it’s old and now > somewhat obscure. Email, by the way has benefited from its universality and > consequently, the continuous refinement of email apps. > > Paul > >> On Jan 10, 2023, at 8:28 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Jan 10, 2023, at 2:07 PM, Comcast <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Usenet is a relatively ancient system for posting information, messages and >>> the like. It was originally phone based relying on dial up modems. It’s now >>> internet based. It’s very basic and straightforward. Although you need an >>> access app, you don’t have to subscribe to a service like Facebook. It’s >>> rather inelegant but old timers embrace it as a computer geek badge of >>> honor. >> >> I resemble that. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet >> >> I looked up RFC 850, and it dates to 1983, so the transition from UUCP to >> the internet is about 40 years old, so it’s not like it’s recent. One could >> also say a lot of the same things about email (and yes red4est used to get >> its email via dial up uucp and bang path) but it’s not like people tend to >> disparage email as something that people used to do over their phones. >> >> Hmm, the more things change… -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
