On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Giles Coochey giles@coochey.net wrote:
On 20/04/2012 12:35, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
Am 19.04.2012 23:42, schrieb Giles Coochey:
On 19/04/2012 01:28, Larry Martell wrote:
- If you're on AOL, don't worry about anything I've said here.
You're already a fucking laughing stock, and there's no hope for you.
Oh, that fateful day when AOL joined usenet, and usenet died.
IIRC that wasn't the same day.
Was still a case of cause and effect.
AOL just added lots of ordinary users. Usenet's history revolves much more around moderated vs. unmoderated issues and the content of alt.binaries.*.