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Tim Bradshaw  
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 More options Jan 9 2012, 5:09 pm
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From: Tim Bradshaw <t...@tfeb.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 22:09:50 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Mon, Jan 9 2012 5:09 pm
Subject: Re: Usenet decline.
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Giorgos Keramidas <keram...@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:

> I think the decline of the Usenet is more related to the 'entry points'
> youngsters use to access the network. When I started using a computer we
> had access to the network through shared physical spaces, like the
> computer room of a University department.  This had the side-effect of
> seeing other people at work, sitting by their side and looking over
> their shoulder as they used 'strange' tools like gopher, trn, elm, pine,
> vi and Emacs.  [...]

> Now a great deal of young people start using the network from their
> mobile phone. [...]

Good answer, I think: I'd not thought of how social computers used to be,
and how they have become pseudo-social now. Sitting in a terminal room
*talking* to other people is something that, I guess, has gone now.

 
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