Article View: rec.audio.tech
Article #677Re: HOW OLD are you?
From: Brenda Ann
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:10
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:10
20 lines
2684 bytes
2684 bytes
"David Kaye" <sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1191277021.361835.40140@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > On Oct 1, 8:47 am, ze...@comcast.net (G) wrote: > >> On these newsgroups, I get the impression the young people do not use, >> or do not like to use USENET. Perhaps they are somewhere else. >> It was not like this10 to 15 years ago. And, there is a lot >> of frustrated old people around here. > > 10 to 15 years ago there weren't Web-based forums. In fact, 15 years > ago there wasn't a Web as we know it. Google Groups may have been the > salvation of Usenet. > Sure there were. I was using web based forums at least as far back as 1983, with my Commodore 64 and a 300 baud acoustic modem (even the crude graphics of the era took forever to load. The bad old days of CompuSlave et al when net time was charged by the minute (about two dollars IIRC). Even then, the forums were very popular, taking over the job that was mostly done by BBS's.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<64KdncEEu_x0c5zanZ2dnUVZ_hWdnZ2d@giganews.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!out03b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mailReferences:
<1191177766.532265.183800@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <fdr4rb$naf$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <1191277021.361835.40140@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: fb1f8,ca0436841567e8d8 X-Google-Thread: 10a749,ca0436841567e8d8 X-Google-Thread: 114aac,ca0436841567e8d8 X-Google-Thread: f7d8a,ca0436841567e8d8 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1f8,gid10a749,gid114aac,gidf7d8a,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!out03b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:10:33 -0500 From: "Brenda Ann" <brendad@shinbiro.com> Newsgroups: rec.audio.tech,rec.audio.car,rec.radio.shortwave,ba.broadcast References: <1191177766.532265.183800@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <fdr4rb$naf$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <1191277021.361835.40140@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: HOW OLD are you? Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:10:40 +0900 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: <64KdncEEu_x0c5zanZ2dnUVZ_hWdnZ2d@giganews.com> Lines: 23 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-JH1WZ3KsukrU1ETjf7Y11WoJzHoWJAzL4B14hXtVfrQdwxcMeFETaoqctIBpAKB4Hif52wasvcD5N9V!g2yR7F+hYFC+kHYkOpHwmXrciNRFytyJMhX59q2AcDBNR5v4pBq9+gSDGwgOQCfaFJwUDUKy X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.35