Ilya the Recusant <qin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In a not so bright galaxy nowhere near intelligent space, bruce
> <jgcrawford+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Ilya the Recusant <qin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> In a not so bright galaxy nowhere near intelligent space, bruce
>>> <jgcrawford+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>Ilya the Recusant <qin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>> In a not so bright galaxy nowhere near intelligent space, bruce
>>>>> <jgcrawford+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>And here's the post where I mentioned it in 2002:
>>>>>><http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=0m9d8-fe3.ln1@[EMAIL
PROTECTED]
>
>>>>>>It was a History thread. Pity we don't see those more often..
>>>>>
>>>>> And it's a post from 2002. Wow. We've been around here a while now.
>>>>
>>>>I've been here for 9 years, noob.
>>>
>>> Hey, that's not a bad record. At least you're still here.
>>
>>S****adically.
>>
>>> Prefer this
>>> to livejournal accounts and the like any day. Wish more people used
>>> usenet. Seems underappreciated for reasons unclear to me.
>>
>>It's separate to the web browser, which is all most people experience of
>>the internet. Unless you use Google, of course, which is just treating
>>Usenet as a webforum anyway.
>
> Web browsers are annoying. At least, I find them to be. There's
> something relaxing about logging onto usenet and using little more
> than text to communicate.
Not to mention crossposting. You can't crosspost between lj and myspace.
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