From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela) Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 12:42:48 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code? In-Reply-To: References: <1525796737.680198.1365037152.60B79FDC@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180508163643.GA16384@mcvoy.com> <201805081706.w48H62gd027214@freefriends.org> Message-ID: On Tuesday, May 8, 2018, Dan Cross wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 1:06 PM, wrote: > >> Larry McVoy wrote: >> > > As an aside: If you were active on Usenet in 1989, what software were >> you using? >> > >> > rn >> >> trn. I *still* use it for the count-on-the-fingers-of-one-hand newgroups >> that I follow. > > > I also still use trn for the small number of groups that I can bring > myself to still read semi-regularly. > > I was lamenting the (asymptotic) death of usenet to a colleague the other > day and asked, "where are all the cool kids these days?" I was only half > joking: back when news was the main nexus of interaction for technical > communities, it really was where you'd go to find things out and where you > could reasonably expect to interact with experts. For example, occasionally > the likes of Dennis Ritchie would even post in comp.lang.c; Ken Thompson's > MiG-29 flight story posted to rec.aviation is a classic. But those days are > long gone, so where do technical communities communicate electronically? > The answer could be as simple as -- you are using one such medium at this very moment. I honestly believe technical mailing lists are the last bastion of information exchange in the way most of us still remember. Although I am writing this on an iPhone (and it really sucks for writing) I still love to read/write emails on an old school DEC terminal or DOS era VGA monitor. All those new fads like reddit or web based forums just don't feel "right" to me. --Andy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: