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Old 01-30-2009, 09:47 PM
AnthonyMI AnthonyMI is offline
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Originally Posted by David View Post

We have witnessed, in our lifetimes, the death of Usenet! Web scripting & markup languages have conquered it & vanquished it!
Usenet was SO spammy though. Even by 1997 it was loaded with way too much crap to be any use. Plus at that time, before hotmail, gmail and other web based email programs, you had to share ONE POP email address with everyone in your household. So that kept me from having and sharing the family email address and posting on USenet. My mom would have KILLED me for discussing and receiving the volume of Fleetwood mac stuff I tended to discuss.
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