Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.It’s never not going to be funny that after years of hype about crypto-metaverse-subscriptions disrupting web2 incumbents, the backstop to Twitter’s sudden implosion was volunteers recreating Usenet with RSS.
Dave Friedel ℠@bkeegan BBS’s in ‘83 with a 300baud modem using X protocol to grab pheaker docs to make a Blue box likely will never be topped, my friend.
People have little understanding how seriously cool that was and the internet just felt like a watered-down version of that dopamine hit.