4 Jun
2011
4 Jun
'11
1:19 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 2 Jun 2011 at 8:30, SPC wrote:
No pretty pictures and flash menus so why would you expect them to know
what Usenet is.
BTW New Mexico State University still maintains the hobbes.nmsu.edu server
even though almost everyone there probably has no clue as to what ftp
(though most access is through http now) is and probably no idea what DOS
or OS/2 is. Every few years they ask for donations and people actually
always donate more then what is required so they assign a few students to
maintain it. The cost is negligible but the historic value is unimaginable
for those looking for old OS/2 and DOS freeware/shareware programs. I
don't understand why Duke couldn't do the same for it's Usenet server.
Mark
"For many years it maintained an almost
vegetative life, but on 20
May, Duke University, Durham (USA), decided to unplug the server host
that kept it alive: Usenet, the online network of discussion groups
formally signed death . It was a precursor to the Internet, but mail,
RSS, and especially Facebook and Twitter have sustituidoel service
they provide."
Didn't Duke shut down their news server May 20 of *last year*?
How many members of the student body even knew in 2010 that Duke
maintained an active news server?