G'morning Kurt,

 KW> and now usenet is starting to go the way that fidonet has gone - again
 KW> people prefer the instantaneous communications over IM and chatrooms
 KW> over slow mediums like email or usenet...

Similarly with cellphones, TXTing and the like ...  developed for 
facilitating military comms,  becoming the way to facilitate 
social interaction.

 KW> the one thing i don't
 KW> understand is web forums - communicating over a web forum really has
 KW> all the same properties as usenet or even fidonet,

I've never looked into a `web forum' ... sign of advanced old age 
?  Where do I log on ?

 KW> but without the
 KW> virtue of being able to aggregate them so as to access everything you
 KW> want in one place... i don't get why web forums are becoming more
 KW> popular while usenet not only falls out of favour but ceases to be
 KW> supported by isps... it's weird...

 KW> i think the only answer is people are fickle...

Fickleness = faddish;  there'll be `early-adopters' climbing into 
each new mode,  followed by their imitators.... the move killing 
off the old (whose ancient denizens know not what `web forae' 
are)...

Miles 
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