Re: The TARDIS lands the Doctor and companons in a creepy garden now available at nightcafe.studio

Will Dockery wrote:
 

 
Yes, all of the other poetry newsgroups are basically dead
now except for alt.srts.poetry.comments.

 
USENET: A POEM
 
In quiet halls where text would hum,
A thousand voices wove as one,
Newsgroups thrived in binary light,
Now fading softly into night.
 
They bloomed where geeks would gather 'round,
A digital agora, knowledge bound
Yet floods of spam, of sporgery and flame
The trolls, the binaries, rose to shame
 
Eternal September spilled its tide,
Newbies crashed in, etiquette died
Moderation waned, control was lost,
The cost too great, the damage tossed
 
Archives sold, then tucked away
In Google’s vault, but threads decay
Some moderated sparks survive,
Yet rec.arts.poetry took its final dive
 
Still in the ruins, whispers speak
A ghost of community, worn and weak.
Where once debate and learning grew,
Today just memory filters through.
 
Let this elegy mourn their breath,
Those networks now bereft of depth.
Though silence falls on old debate,
May we recall what made them great.
 
 
(C) The Bluffing Bard 2025