Ant sent the following on Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:40:14 -0700: > On 3/19/2013 12:40 PM PT, Jim G. typed: > > >>> Yep. And what time is devoted to things will probably be on the email > >>> side of things, as most people under 35 have probably never even heard > >>> of USENET. Once in a while, I take a look at the web boards on a place > >>> like Reddit and laugh that "kids today" think that that's a better way > >>> to communicate and exchange ideas online. Oh, well... > >> > >> Please forgive my ignorance but what's Reddit?? ;-) > > > > The new(er) Digg. It's basically a big news-gathering and -sharing > > playground for 20-something-year-old guys and other guys who wish that > > they were still 20-something. > > I used to use Digg until they went downhill withi its v4 and revamped > the whole thing. I switched to Reddit like most Diggers. I still use > newsgroups/usenet, /., IRC, text based programs, SSH2, etc. :)
USENET and the old Compuserve with its venerable forums pretty much guaranteed that I would never be happy with web-based interactions. To me, this sort of thing requires an offline reader and some really good filters, neither of which is available on most web forums. -- Jim G. [Insert your favorite clever tagline here.] _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
