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At the risk of being unpopular
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David Rance wrote: URG is a child of its time. It's like the Fidonet which was the first worldwide general means of electronic communication. ... Like hell it was! Sorry, but that accolade must go to UUCP; while it was little used outside of academia, that was simply because few other people had computers that weren't tightly tied down. Even Usenet (i.e. newsgroups as we know them) dates from several years before Fidonet, and I have been using it in its previous form since 1979. By the time Fidonet appeared, UUCP had escaped from academia, and the 'Internet revolution' had started. Google have stopped making their history public, but their group archive dates from 1981. Fidonet dates from 1983. But, yes, URG is a child of its time - I agree with Sacha, except that I don't agree that the currently favoured alternatives are a functional replacement or will continue to host reasonable discussions in the long term. This is a social issue, associated with the dumbing down of most forms of communication - I have heard that things are somewhat better outside the USA/UK/etc. grouping, especially in the Far East. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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