23 Oct
2015
23 Oct
'15
10:51 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
I joined Usenet right before the Great Renaming and ran a node for
years (up to about 1995). There were epic flamewars. That part of
our history I don't miss.
-ethan
From: Chuck
Guzis
I do miss the web-less Internet in some respects.
People were more
polite back then--at least in their written communication.
I snorted and started coughing when I read that! :-) Usenet had massive flame
wars long before the Web existed!