-=> MILES MAXTED wrote to KURT WISMER <=-

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 KW> well, emailing is pretty familiar to most and depending on
 KW> the site you can generally do ftp in the web browser - it's
 KW> a little less graphical than one might be used to, but still
 KW> a 'web' experience to the inexperienced...

 MM> So true;  by comparison,  the most facile Fidonetters seemed to be
 MM> those who had communications, radio ham or (R)TTY backgrounds - a
 MM> far cry from to-day's newcomers.

 MM> Sometimes its hard to remeber that to-day's 20 year-old has no
 MM> experience of life without cellphones, personal computers or
 MM> networks....

 MM> I once tried giving some 50 students a CMD script with a desktop
 MM> icon that logged them into a local BBS via a Banana comms
 MM> programme,  but even that failed to hook any of them into Fidonet
 MM> - a real eye-opener.

well, to be fair, even before i started using the internet (over a
decade ago now) i knew there were lots and lots of people calling up
chat bbses instead of normal bbses because the communication there was
more instantaneous - they couldn't bare the slowness of forums and
instead opted for chatrooms...

and now usenet is starting to go the way that fidonet has gone - again
people prefer the instantaneous communications over IM and chatrooms
over slow mediums like email or usenet... the one thing i don't
understand is web forums - communicating over a web forum really has all
the same properties as usenet or even fidonet, but without the virtue of
being able to aggregate them so as to access everything you want in one
place... i don't get why web forums are becoming more popular while
usenet not only falls out of favour but ceases to be supported by
isps... it's weird...

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