Such a sad outcome for something that could have been magical together.

I was there in the Usenet days, and it was beautiful. I was there when Compuserve and Prodigy and Mozilla burst forth.

It's not the platform though.

We're seeing a retelling of the Eternal September story, and it's sad. Yeah, some historical context will be passed on, reframed for the new century. But there's a core philosophy that will never be "recovered." Because it didn't truly arise from sharing.

It's right there in the name.

Beware the tempers wasn't part of the original dream.