KevinMD November 27, 2024
At age 80, I am an old man. I am also an experienced writer and voracious reader. I’ve been active in internet bulletin boards and social media interest groups since the 1980s—in what we used to call “users net” (USENET)—before the emergence of the World Wide Web.
In the 1980s, I briefly moderated a community on the internet called “Internet Village Elders.” The forum was intended to share information between librarians and others concerning the world’s largest information marketplace. We disbanded after a year. The explosion of information sources made it impossible to keep up. The emergence of internet search engines had also convinced large numbers of people that they could find anything they needed online, without us.
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