Heh. Try this one. One of our old “friends.”
[Edited by UncleBeer on 10-15-2001 at 05:03 PM]
It seemed like a good idea at the time… :o
Which is completely true, except for the fact that message boards like what we have here cannot exist on Usenet, a text-only medium. Nitpick, I know, but you won’t find many people who have seen both confusing a WWW message board with a Usenet domain.
Derleth wrote:
Two nitpicks back atcha:
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There is, apparently, plenty of newsreader software out there quite comfortable with reading and/or posting html, and then some. I’ve seen plenty of messages with background JPGs, music, etc… Usenet hasn’t been “text only” for quite a while, although it should be.
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The easiest way to confuse a newsgroup with a Web site is to access the newsgroups through a Web site (such as Google, Supernews, MailAndNews, etc.). No shortage of people on Usenet posting, “I’m so happy I found this Web site - the people on the Yahoo Groups suck,” or some such sentiment. Explaining the difference is generally a waste of bandwidth.
Ha Ha. Thx for that Unc
What a :wally
My point was that you should not confuse “web” and “internet” regardless of whether you’d confuse their content in a side-by-side comparison. There are plenty of people who don’t understand the distinction. Many people, newbies mostly, use web-based email and never see anything outside a web page in a browser. They think “web” and “net” are synonymous and are baffled by the concept that the internet could exist quite well for years before the web came along.
Sure it’s a nitpick, but that’s what fighting ignorance is all about. The OP asked if SDMB is the biggest board on the net which makes it clear that he was either unaware of the existence of Usenet or mistakenly used “net” when he meant “web”.
He can run, but he cannot hide.
:wally