Re: net.martyr
Louis Epstein <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet,news.groups |
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| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
In news.groups immibis <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/11/23 16:56, Paul W. Schleck wrote: >> "I'm not impressed by the net.martyr archetype on-line. I saw it many >> times on the Usenet newsgroups, and now it's starting to infect >> blogs. People are entitled to their opinions, but the net.martyr raises >> it to some kind of moral crusade, and an ill-considered, unproductive, >> and egomaniacal one at that. Some of their attributes:" >> >> https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicUsenet/comments/urley0/netmartyr/ >> > > " - Even if Usenet is obsolete, its history may contain lessons for > next-generation distributed social media that were not learned by later > commercial efforts like Twitter and Facebook." > > ^ this one. Now that I know how Usenet works, I see how many platforms > are just subsets of Usenet. (Please don't forget that Usenet proper is just a subset of Netnews). -=-=- The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again, at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.