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There have been dark wells of hate online since the Usenet era, but back then, misanthropy was distributed across thousands of different platforms.
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Steven Johnson, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2018
Jeremy Reimer Usenet was also the home to many communication firsts.
—Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2024
The Usenet group’s archives from that era appear to have been lost.
—Matt Curtis, New York Times, 21 June 2023
Gorski’s far more bristling approach, birthed in the baptismal fires of Usenet flame wars, is a good representation of skeptic culture, where the quality of the information is far more important than civility.
—Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
On a Usenet group in 1989, someone started a thread to discuss which actresses where the most attractive.
—WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
By March 1994, when AOL connected its one million subscribers to Usenet, soft moderation tactics had begun to dissolve; the newbies had no idea that there were particular social mores, folkways, and protocols that had been designed by their predecessors.
—Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
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Steven Johnson, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2018
Jeremy Reimer Usenet was also the home to many communication firsts.
—Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2024
The Usenet group’s archives from that era appear to have been lost.
—Matt Curtis, New York Times, 21 June 2023
Gorski’s far more bristling approach, birthed in the baptismal fires of Usenet flame wars, is a good representation of skeptic culture, where the quality of the information is far more important than civility.
—Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
On a Usenet group in 1989, someone started a thread to discuss which actresses where the most attractive.
—WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
By March 1994, when AOL connected its one million subscribers to Usenet, soft moderation tactics had begun to dissolve; the newbies had no idea that there were particular social mores, folkways, and protocols that had been designed by their predecessors.
—Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
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“Usenet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Usenet. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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