- Monday April 24th, 2006
There are a whole bunch of people with their knickers in a knot about how the Internet is not a nice place. And then a whole bunch on the other side going ‘we’re being funny and people shouldn’t be so stressed’. The other refrain was ‘it was better in the olden days’. Oh for fuck’s sake. Having actually been around in the olden’ days when there was no goddamn web and simply Usenet, mailing lists, and the occasional gopher site any rose-coloured rememberences are a joke. The Usenet was a vicious, dangerous, take no prisoners place. A foot wrong and you could be buried in invective. Where does everyone think ‘playing the Hitler card’ comes from? Thankfully with Usenet I had a kill file. God I wish I had a kill file for some comments now.
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