Usenet Quotes

#1. Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.

Howard Rheingold

#2. Usenet is the last uncensored mass medium.

Steve Crocker

#3. With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.

Paul Vixie

#4. In the first few years, it was at least plausible to come in in the morning and read all the Usenet traffic that had come in, and 15 minutes later be off doing something useful.

Henry Spencer

#5. When Usenet was eclipsed by websites in the late 1990s, people from that world - many of them programmers - wanted to bring the freewheeling, amazing discussions of Usenet to the web. And thus, RSS was born.

Annalee Newitz

#6. In June 1991 he took the drastic step of asking a friend to post PGP on a Usenet bulletin board. PGP is just a piece of software, and so from the bulletin board it could be downloaded by anyone for free. PGP was now loose on the Internet.

Simon Singh

#7. Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

#8. There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open.

Don Rittner

#9. RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.

Annalee Newitz

#10. I want to roll my eyes right now, but the doctor says that if I keep doing it, my ocular muscles might spasm and eject my eyeballs.

LIZ

#11. People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

Idries Shah

#12. Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any account

Sunday Adelaja

#13. No one cares what YOU want, they only care about themselves.

Art Sobczak

#14. The unspoken feeling that engulfs you and smolders you more and more each day.....love!

Kiran Joshi

#15. Believing in yourself is the best poetry.

Marty Rubin

#16. It's a pity you are so poor & plain. And a shame you have such intelligence & spirit, Miss Middleton. You might otherwise make a man an acceptable spouse.

M.R.C. Kasasian