Re: Emigration from Usenet

Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted:

Let's translate that to ``the experts are not here''.  The experts who
are in social networks seem to be a minority, so I conjecture that most
experts are off the radar, perhaps waiting for something better.

  The experts used to be here. Linux was announced in comp.os.minix.
  Tim Berners Lee published a summary of the World Wide Web project to
  the alt.hypertext newsgroup. Marc Andreessen announced Netscape in
  comp.infosystems.www.users. The launch of AltaVista was announced in
  biz.digital.announce. "Uncle Bob" wrote in comp.objects. Greg Egan
  asked about the science for his SF novels in sci.physics.research.
  Dennis Ritchie wrote in comp.lang.c. They just disappeared.