Time Stands Still In One Place

[ChessSpawn]

I visited Usenet, rec.chess politics, last night for the first time in several years. Amazing how nothing has changed. Mostly Sam Sloan, fake Sam Sloans, fake children of Sam Sloan and anons of long standing spewing vituperative garbage. Kind of amazing that Usenet even exists these days. It seems so quaintly archaic. There was a time when for many subjects, like Euro pro bicycle racing, it was the best and only immediate source of information. How the web has changed our lives, eh?

[jjamesge1]

@ChessSpawn

I visited Usenet, rec.chess politics, last night for the first time in several years. Amazing how nothing has changed. Mostly Sam Sloan, fake Sam Sloans, fake children of Sam Sloan and anons of long standing spewing vituperative garbage. Kind of amazing that Usenet even exists these days. It seems so quaintly archaic. There was a time when for many subjects, like Euro pro bicycle racing, it was the best and only immediate source of information. How the web has changed our lives, eh?

I think social media changed it. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, and dozens of other social media tools and apps.

[ChessSpawn]

@jjamesge1

@ChessSpawn

I visited Usenet, rec.chess politics, last night for the first time in several years. Amazing how nothing has changed. Mostly Sam Sloan, fake Sam Sloans, fake children of Sam Sloan and anons of long standing spewing vituperative garbage. Kind of amazing that Usenet even exists these days. It seems so quaintly archaic. There was a time when for many subjects, like Euro pro bicycle racing, it was the best and only immediate source of information. How the web has changed our lives, eh?

I think social media changed it. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, and dozens of other social media tools and apps.

That too. In the case of pro cycling, we who lived in places like NYC would, early in the day, get to news stands selling L’Equipe, Mirroir du Cyclisme and other publications to follow the sport. There was a professor in the early 1990s at Vanderbilt University who had Euro contacts and sent out a subscribed email of news on a weekly basis for a while. Then commercial web sites like those of VeloNews and CyclingNews began to provide timely news, gossip and features. Usenet became little more than a flame fest.