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When was that?


Something like 500 BC, back in Athens.


Before Eternal September.


Usenet was an anarchy, not a democracy.


Yes, but the users were smart enough to not let it leak into the real world.


Oh, I don't think that's true. If it were, we wouldn't have Linux, Burning Man, or the EFF.


And newsgroup-based file sharing.




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