Re: Usenet: Predictions for the New Millennium?

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From: James Hunter
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00

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On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 03:19:12 GMT, mimus wrote the following silly
shit:

>On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 09:29:56 +1100, Ward <wnallen@ozemail.comdotau>
>wrote:
>
>>Jonathan Grobe wrote:
>>> 
>>> Anyone care to make any predictions as to what will happen to Usenet
>>> in the new millennium?
>>> 
>>It will be flooded by a deluge of fuckheads, netcops, kooks, and
>>the occasional entertaining idiot.
>>
>>Oh.  Wait.  It'll just be the same.
>
>I'm waiting for Sega Dreamcast to bring Usenet to the multitudes left
>behind by the technical intricacies of aol and webtv . . . .

Har. I doubt .05% have heard about Usenet, much less be able to wander
their way in, even using Deja.

 JM Hunter

"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a
 million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." 

 Computer science sage Robert Wilensky

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