{"id":4708,"date":"2010-05-21T08:19:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T08:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/21\/altsictransitgloriamundi\/"},"modified":"2010-05-21T08:19:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T08:19:43","slug":"altsictransitgloriamundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/21\/altsictransitgloriamundi\/","title":{"rendered":"alt.sic.transit.gloria.mundi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duke shut down its Usenet server yesterday<\/a>, which is significant because Duke’s server was the original home of Usenet. I think this means that Usenet is now available only to about a dozen people with panix accounts.<\/p>\n

I note this here because Usenet was an important part of my life. I started reading the rec.arts.sf.* hierarchy in 1993, was involved in the creation of rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan, and spent a lot of time there and on rec.sport.basketball.college as a graduate student and post-doc. It was my introduction to text-based interaction on the Internet, and led directly to blogdom and my current C-list Internet fame. I made a lot of friends through Usenet, including Kate, so it’s really been a major influence on my personal life. <\/p>\n

Of course, I haven’t looked at any of those groups in years, and my first reaction to the Duke story, like a lot of other people’s, was “Wow. That’s still going?” But it is<\/a>, and it’s sad but sort of fitting to see that nine of the last ten posts to r.a.s.w.r-j are by Tim Bruening.<\/p>\n

So long, Usenet. You will be remembered fondly, and in jokes that nobody gets any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Duke shut down its Usenet server yesterday, which is significant because Duke’s server was the original home of Usenet. I think this means that Usenet is now available only to about a dozen people with panix accounts. I note this here because Usenet was an important part of my life. I started reading the rec.arts.sf.*… Continue reading alt.sic.transit.gloria.mundi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}