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CS234 <cs234@lhmerino.dont-email.me> wrote:
> This thread is intended for the students of CS-234:
> Technologies for democratic society
> 
> How does Usenet fit into the vision presented by Licklider and Taylor in
> "The Computer as a Communication Device"?
> 
>UseNet fits into the vision inside 
>"The Computer as a comunication device", because even at the time,
>The authors envision "on-line interactive communities"
> of geographically separated members
>connected by common interests rather than location.
>This is very similar to how Usenet newsgroups function, 
and the book already anticipated what
>will become the blogs in the future.

>LickLider and Taylor envisaged the potential 
for users to share programs,
> data, and ideas across a network.
>This is just like how Usenet allows users to share
 information through newsgroups
>The authors also describe a "network of networks"
 that interconnects various computer systems, 
>which is what decentralized systems were
> well even before the concept of blockchains.