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Old 8th Feb 2019, 7:52 pm   #83
Maarten
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Default Re: Changing the throw away culture, BBC News

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... In fact there is nothing introduced in the last 30 years that I actually want (and think would improve my life) ...
Are you saying that this place is making you unhappy (Tim Berners-Lee started the world wide web in 1989) ?
If the WWW wouldn't have been invented, we undoubtedly would have had this discussion using a usenet group, possibly called net.radio.vintage Usenet has been around since the early 1980's and still sees some niche use, although mostly for sending attachments instead of having discussions. I've once or twice thought about building forum software on top of a usenet backend but deemed it not worth the effort.
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