Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989.)

Re:Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989.) by doe88 on Sunday May 14, 2023 @01:27PM (#35939597)

The twitter of its time (without Elon)!

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Re:Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989.) by mathgeek on Sunday May 14, 2023 @02:08PM (#35939957)

Not particularly. The masses were neither on nor aware of Usenet and thus it never had the cultural real-time impact on society that modern popular services do. It was mostly “early” tech folks and academics chatting with each other.

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Re:Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989.) by macintux on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:48PM (#35941246)

There were glimmers. The Babylon 5 group had an impact on both the audience and the show itself, for example, with JMS actively participating.

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Re:Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989.) by mjmsmith on Sunday May 14, 2023 @02:18PM (#35940053)

Plus federation. Like Algol, an improvement on its successors.

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Re:Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989.) by layer8 on Sunday May 14, 2023 @03:32PM (#35940699)

More like the Reddit of its time.

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Re:Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989.) by antod on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:29PM (#35941120)

I often think of it the other way round, ie Reddit is the usenet of its time.

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Re:Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989.) by anthk on Sunday May 14, 2023 @03:37PM (#35940736)

More like Slashdot.

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Re:Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989.) by NoZebra120vClip on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:30PM (#35941129)

> The twitter of its time (minus Elon)!

No, but we had B1FF D00DZ1!!1

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Re:Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989.) by macintux on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:45PM (#35941223)

And Serdar Argic.

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Re:Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989.) by caf on Sunday May 14, 2023 @09:16PM (#35942912)

TINC

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