Comment on The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be

spiderman@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think it comes to down to the definition of "dead". Both are certainly dead for the reasons they were created.

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Either you die a hero…

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re dead as social media; all anyone uses them for is piracy these days and not to, you know… Talk to people.

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• doubletwist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still use irc every day for legitimate work/technical support purposes.

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  • spiderman@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    what kinda product do you work on?

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    • doubletwist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Historically I’ve been a Unix/Linux/VMware sysadmin, though I’ve moved into a professional services role doing automation/orchestration/config-management.

      There’s a lot of good IT/Development technical channels on IRC, especially on libera.chat and oftc.net, since freenode went down the drain.

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      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Historically I’ve been a Unix/Linux/VMware sysadmin, though I’ve moved into a professional services role doing automation/orchestration/config-management.

        Are you me?

        Honestly, your nick is familiar, so I’d only rejoice to hear you were in the 07974 for Unix during such exciting times (Random love, shadow legal, blue November etc).

        Go learn mgmtConfig!

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