Pour répondre à ces deux questions, je n’ai qu’à recopier le texte de présentation de mon profil. 😉
« J’ai vu de la lumière, alors je suis entré.
J’ai rencontré des gens sympas, alors je suis resté. »
Je suis arrivé ici en septembre 2020, et ma seule expérience de réseau-socialisation était #Usenet (où j’ai aussi rencontré des gens sympas, et où je suis aussi resté).
still working on the #uucp setup we were doing two weeks ago. I think I am getting to the point where my newsserver is peering with another server over uucp to bring #usenet into our private uucp network.
"So, what’s the lesson for today? Many monetized systems push for more and more users, but the history of BBSs and other early online networks shows clearly that quality is more important than quantity in building authentic online communities."
In this AI hype we are living I think things like #Usenet, #Irc, etc will see a resurgence. I mean, everybody is trying to sell your data to AI, it's on you to find an avenue that's safe and private...
It had its high time approx. 90s to mid 00s. I very much enjoyed it.
It ticks all the boxes when it comes to #federation and freedom of interface: a number of web-based services, CLI tools like #slrn (mine), #Thunderbird and other GUI-tools.
I knew that IMDb had been around a long time but TIL it predates the World Wide Web, as it was initially launched as Usenet group rec.arts.movies in 1990 and moved to the web in 1993. And it's been owned by Amazon since 1998, because of course it has 🙄