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On 2018-08-03, Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018, JimP wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 06:02:12 -0400, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 2018-08-02, ma...@mail.com <ma...@mail.com> wrote:
>>
> I think that's some of the structure.
>
> It took me a long time to get online, but I knew about it since 1978 (Byte 
> ran a series about computer networking,  which did reference arpanet, and 
> there was also an article about the first small computer BBS).  I know 
> every so often after I got a modem in 1985 I'd dial up a local BBS, go 
> through the process of  registering, and then discover not much there, too 
> small a population to be of interest to me.
>
> But those decades, it was about talking to people I didn't know, and about 
> technology.  Other than those local BBSs, there wasn't enough density in 
> most places to allow for a "local", which is surely why usenet is 
> organized around topics.  When I did get full internet access in 1996, it 
> was still a relatively new thing, lots of people had gotten online by 
> then, but it was dwarfed by those who came later.  And somewhere, there 
> was a shift, people got on to do their shopping, to get their news, to 
> read mail from people they knew.  They weren't interested in the wild 
> world of talking to people they didn't know.
>
> Facebook is built on the decades of "networking" in places like usenet and 
> the Genie and even AOL.  But they created some different space, "cleaner" 
> and also catering to a different crowd.  People who focused on "people 
> they knew".
>


First modem I got did 300, whatever it is called, would'nt get it to work,
years later I discovered that (US - EU(well, european)) were incompatible,
 then I got 1200/75.. the speeds mattered in Ireland, local calls were dear,
 further very dear. Every step was accompanied by people proving that higher
 speeds were impossible.

I once tried a messaging system, like a BBS, based on Ncomm, a utility.
I quickly discovered that such a thing was a magnet for nutters, and i worried
that if one of them left an abusive message, I would be liable.

My opinion is that you trust nobody, be careful about everyone.
There was a rape trial in Belfast recently, and the Facebooks were flooded.
the case was basically "She didn't object" vs "I never said yes." Some of the
opinions offered were awful. 

Every newspaper has opinions, the bias has to be weeded out by the reader.

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Ma...@ireland.com
Will Rant For Food