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What you seem to be saying is "nothing's changed" because this "problem with myspace" has been happening since before USENET was a thing. A bunch of CeeFax and Minitel users want this internet rubbish dealt with. Gopher is ballistically angry with CERN over the web. don't get me started on WAIS.

I have no doubt Socrates was royally pissed off with the drop in the levels of discourse in the symposium once people decided hookers and blow (booze and sex) was just as interesting as talk.

Charles Dickens shut down as many monthly journals as he opened, rolling each one's publisher as hard as he could. You think there were no subscribers rolling their eyes when their year-long membership in that series died?