pluralistic, 9 months ago When I got on #Usenet shortly thereafter, the Unix Greybeard set never passed up an opportunity to tell us newcomers that the #Fidonet-Usenet bridge allowed the barbarian hordes to overwhelm their Athenian marketplace of ideas: https://technicshistory.com/2020/06/25/the-era-of-fragmentation-part-4-the-anarchists/ When I joined #TheWELL in the late 1980s, I was repeatedly assured that the good times were over, and that we would never see their like again: https://www.well.com/ 3/
When I got on #Usenet shortly thereafter, the Unix Greybeard set never passed up an opportunity to tell us newcomers that the #Fidonet-Usenet bridge allowed the barbarian hordes to overwhelm their Athenian marketplace of ideas:
https://technicshistory.com/2020/06/25/the-era-of-fragmentation-part-4-the-anarchists/
When I joined #TheWELL in the late 1980s, I was repeatedly assured that the good times were over, and that we would never see their like again:
https://www.well.com/
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