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   oldernow to Steve Hayes   
   Re: Long live USENET!   
   04 May 24 21:45:00   
   
   From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-05-04, Steve Hayes  wrote:   
      
   > And I hate it when pages that I linked to on some of my   
   > glog posts are taken down, because some of those blog   
   > posts I still refer to people.   
      
   The Tim Berners-Lee vision morphed into a whole lot of   
   underbelly that counts on people being good actors, when   
   history and society reveal people are almost never that.   
      
   > And I love it when I find a piece of information that   
   > someone asked about in a Usenet newsgroup 20 years ago,   
   > and can post an answer, even if the4y may not still be   
   > around to read it; someone else who reads it may know them,   
   > or what happened to them.   
      
   I felt that way in the past, but after a while it seemed   
   online serendipity was mostly delivering "same old", e.g   
   this post. ;-)   
      
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