[forapurpose]

Usenet article periodically get promoted to the front page. I wonder what that says about the age demographics of HN, given that Usenet hasn't been significant in maybe 20 years (and even then it was a niche). Is the younger generation here? And if not here, where?

[unimpressive]

I'm kind of offended that you seem to think young people can't be aware of things that happened before their time.

EDIT: To elaborate a bit, my expectation would be that the sort of young person using HN leans more historically interested than normal. Is more likely to appreciate the value of things like Internet archive, etc. Usenet is a huge part of digital history, and the fact that it's not available even though archives were kept is something of a tragedy.

[edraferi]

I’m too young for Usenet, but I think it’s an interesting bit of history. I like how open it seems relative to current social media.