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October 08, 2003
Ye Olde Internet
I'm seriously thinking about changing to a moderated comments system. The, shall we say, "quality" of the comments has been less than great (which is why you don't see many of them here). I guess I should have expected this. And by seriously thinking about, I mean, I just have modify my comments system code.
There are times when I miss the Internet of 1991. There, the primary social interaction was via Usenet News (newsgroups). And it wasn't the haven for pornography and spam that the newsgroups have become today. You could actually have a conversation with people and only occasionally get flamed (unless you were posting to rec.humor).
A few years later, the web brought far too many people to the Net and with it, we got the full flavor of online culture. It's as poluted as our IRL (in real life) lives.
But hey. Where does nostalgia get us? More flames. ;P
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