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Re:textfiles.com by Exmoor on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:37AM (#22996827)
It feels like that, but I think the world has just become more complicated and the signal/noise ratio is different and the publishing avenues and methods are much more dispersed. Back in the BBS/Usenet days if you wanted to write a FAQ or doc on a specific topic you typically did it in one of the very few places (text file, FidoNet, usenet). Now you can create a video on Youtube, post on a major social network (Facebook group, subreddit, topic-specific forum, etc.), create your own webpage, etc.

As someone who grew up in the BBS era I am often nostalgic for it because everything felt a lot easier to grasp and much more simple, but in truth the amount of information out there and easy to access is many orders of magnitude higher these days.

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