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ew.gemini ew.gemini at nassur.net
Tue Apr 27 18:40:37 BST 2021
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Hello,
'Stephane Bortzmeyer' <stephane at sources.org> writes:
I don't know if a researcher already did a survey of geminauts, and of
their age. Are they old people nostalgic of the beginning or young
people eager to revolutionize "Dad's Web"? I was also a Usenet admin
at the time of C&S.
I'm 58. And I could in theory have lived through all the stagesof the evolving internet. However, I had access only atuniversity to various degrees. I was reading usenet for a while.But then, I was a student in physics, so computers were merelytools. I very much agree with R.Hamming: The purpose ofcomputing is insight, not numbers. This quote predates me by abit ;)
I'm very text centric. I live on the shell and in emacs. I type"man" faster than I reach for webbrowser+search-engine. Sogemini is simple enough for me to just write text down.
I'm amazed that gemini attracts youngsters as well. Good on you!Content is imho much more important than "the looks" --- with afew exceptions.
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers,~ew
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