[Info-vax] Usenet searching

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

I added a couple of quotes to my collection today:

USENET was the first and greatest moment of massive connectivity of a million
individual minds.  It is the first and greatest moment of humanity thinking
together (or at least all murmuring simultaneously).  It was, if nothing else,
a giant cocktail party.  However trivial and tripe most of the thoughts may
have been, there is a larger gestalt in its mass.  And unlike the information
in the internet decades later, USENET is nicely flat.  The whole is more than
just the sum of its individual parts.

                  ---itfitzme at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet/

The basic functionality of Google Groups is lower, and its implementation far
more ignorant, than, say, a 1990 version of Majordomo.

           ---RobertPlamondon at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet/

More at http://www.astro.multivax.de:8000/helbig/misc/quotes.txt