Cherry Chapstick <azure@invalid.really.really> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:14:20 +0000 (UTC), Tony <tony@darkstorm.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>>And my last comment, if the hackers who read this group wanted
>>to, they could develop a good, working java based newsreader that
>>could be driven via a web interface
> 
> The group of hackers I was involved with in .za over ten years ago
> tried something similar, but the intent was to develop a java based
> newsreader that interfaced with local bulletin board newsgroups.  It
> kind of sucked.  
> 
> Things have moved on and an easy to drive browser would certainly make
> a difference.

I think 10 years ago people wanted to connect everything with everything,
assuming that there would be people writing in Usenet for ever, and that
the best bet was to bring some kind of connection between Usenet, forums,
and other discussion environments.

These days I think it's clear that different technologies actually breed
different cultures, and it's not always easy to connect them together.

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On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:03:44 +0000 (UTC), Tony <tony@darkstorm.invalid>
wrote:

>> Things have moved on and an easy to drive browser would certainly make
>> a difference.
>
>I think 10 years ago people wanted to connect everything with everything,
>assuming that there would be people writing in Usenet for ever, and that
>the best bet was to bring some kind of connection between Usenet, forums,
>and other discussion environments.

Strangely enough, this was just prior to the height of usenet, which
would have been around 2000, and was an attempt to keep the forums on
the bulletin boards alive; ZA had a healthy online culture which
possibly derived from the fact that most people were too scared to go
out at night.  It was a good culture, for those times, as well; an
awful lot of breaking down of race/culture barriers went on in those
boards (as well as an awful lot of laagering).  Our attempts were
negated by the beginning of the rise of web based forae.

>These days I think it's clear that different technologies actually breed
>different cultures, and it's not always easy to connect them together.

This may be connected with the age of the users of the different
forae, with people feeling most comfortable with the new and shiny at
their time of initiation. 

Perhaps a new and shiny related to usenet could revive it.