[AusNOG] AAB Statement

[Andrew Fort]

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Mark Smith
<nanog at 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:19:30 +1000
> Andrew Fort <afort at choqolat.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Mark Smith
>> >
>> > I think it'd be pretty short sighted to assume that the commonly run
>> > applications of today are going to the same in the future.
>> >
>>
>> You mean, like email and file transfer? :)
>>
>
> When I first started using the Internet in the early 90s, I generally
> think usenet news was probably the most popular application, with email
> and FTP being close seconds.
>
> The recent resurgence in usenet is only really as a substitute for file
> transfers. usenet for what it was originally designed for is
> effectively dead.

"Replaced" by yahoo/google groups.

Note that only the distribution mechanism changed to suit the style
conscience of the audience (i.e., they wanted to use a browser).  I
don't call this a different (human) application.

Obviously usenet has been for a good many years (since the mid 90s?)
mostly (certainly by way of traffic volume) an inefficient ways of
trading binaries.

Humans haven't really changed, so the applications that existed
before, will still exist now.  I'm not saying there won't be new ones
of course.

-a