Re: Emigration from Usenet

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

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

Average people seem to want Slack or Discord a lot more than NNTP
servers.

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  For comparison, a text from 2001:
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|Since Usenet was created in 1979, it has seen an impressive
|growth from a small academic community to a network used by
|millions of people from a wide variety of backgrounds all
|over the world. The total size of the data flowing through
|Usenet has been more than tripling every year between 1993
|and 2001.

This makes sense.  I would not think these were really average people.
I think average people are more like someone in this thread put it:
shopping people.  I would think that, for most of the world, the
Internet really took off around the year 2000, so up to this point it
makes sense that the USENET was still blossoming.

"Handling Information Overload on Usenet" (2001) - Jan IngvoldstadF.

Thanks for the thesis reference.