[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: first news group post

[Greg Edwards]

Lance Simmons wrote:
> 
> A couple of years later, there was another expansion.  Services like
> Prodigy and AOL started bringing to Usenet, and to the Internet more
> generally, people with no technical knowledge and often not even the
> rudiments of a decent education.  I remember being frustrated, and
> thinking "who _are_ these people, and why won't they go away?"  As we
> all know, they didn't go away, and Usenet became what it is today.  (The
> Internet as a whole, however, seems to have fared OK.)
> 
> Here's the question:  you lived through both those waves of change.  Did
> you experience them (at the time, I mean, not in retrospect) as being on
> the same order of magnitude, or did you experience the second wave as
> much more significant?
> 

Wave 3, WWW and Mosaic, was the most significant and frustrating (noise 
level) all at the same time.  Without point and click access the vast 
majority of computer users wouldn't be users.

-- 
Greg Edwards

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