Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!freezemoon1.dont-email.me!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lorie Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: CS-234 Discussion Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:12:22 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Sender: root Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:12:23 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: freezemoon1.dont-email.me; posting-host="d3069c7ae648f8ff7ae7725421df37d8"; logging-data="2414464"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/i236qKG534UzkfT35o6WvC4LlF9OoWug=" User-Agent: tin/2.6.3-20231224 ("Banff") (Linux/5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q+1BQ7IR1x4KK3vFRrk1uosgtkk= Bytes: 2465 CS234 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"? > > Reflect on: > - Which aspects of their vision are realized through Usenet? > - What aspects have evolved differently from what they imagined? > > Feel free to respond to comments made by your classmates as well. Usenet is the Founding Father of today's social media and it fit Licklider and Taylor's ideology through its easy access to a wide range of topic discussions through the newsgroups. It allows the centralization of communication from anywhere across the world, fitting the description of "geographically separated members" able to communicate seamlessly with each other. However, the rising of more graphically-inclined and accessible programs such as actual social media platforms fits more Licklider and Taylor's vision of "fast and flexible graphic display" that was very difficult to produce in their times. Usenet is at the end only a forum and Licklider and Taylor's hopes for code sharing, remote code execution, permissions controls, etc. wouldn't be fulfilled through Usenet but by much more recent applications such as GitHub, desktop sharing applications, etc. But evidently, none of these could've existed without Usenet paving the way first.