On Friday, June 11, 2021 at 5:10:59 AM UTC-4, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 5:59:53 PM UTC-4, wrote:
> > On 6/10/2021 5:11 PM, wrote:
> > > On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 3:40:31 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Does anyone have any recipes from Europe? <ducking>
> > >>
> > >> Jill
> > >>
> > > *SMACK!*
> > >
> > LOL! I never did understand why Usenet was part of a college
> > curriculum. It was old technology even by 1996 standards.
> > Jill
>
> It wasn't part of the curriculum. They got an account for their
> coursework (almost all were engineering or computer science dweebs)
> and discovered this great place where they could annoy people all
> over the world.

Careful to remember though, that people who are annoyed by Usenet would be equally annoyed by whatever else was there, if it weren't. You can't please all of the people all ...