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Skriven 2007-07-01 18:18:28 av DAVE SACERDOTE (1:123/140)
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DS> The REAL point is that clinging to old tech = doom. 
 
SD> The internet is well over 25 years old, as is email and even 
SD> mailing lists.

SD> So maybe there's an error in that logic somewhere.

The error is in your own logical fallacy that the internet has
remained static throughout its history; the system in place 25
years ago would be unrecognizable today and is not, in fact, the
same system that operates today.

SD> With that logic, if you use a computer that's older than six 
SD> months old, it's obsolete according to Moore's Law (and even 
SD> Moore's Law is becoming obsolete since technology is moving 
SD> so fast).  Both of my main machines are 2001
SD> vintage.  So you're claiming that because I use old computers, 
SD> which both work fine, I'm destined to doom?

Show me where I said that, or stop putting words in my mouth, okay?
And while you're at it, show me the computer today that can read
the data tapes from my TI99/4A that I made in 1989. Or the punch
tape that I stored my first BASIC program on in 1975. Or the IBM 
punch card that held my parent's income tax return in 1961.  Hell,
they're not even putting floppies in new computers.

Oh, and by the way, your computers work fine today tis true. But I
have a 386-DX40 that ran fine until the day that new software wasn't
being released that would run on it any more and I unplugged it.
If you think your old computers and old software are going to last 
forever, you're mistaken.

SD> A side point: with Fidonet, you don't have a single point of 
SD> failure as you do with a mailing list.

First of all, I'm not talking about a single point of failure, I'm
talking about a system-wide cascading failure of the Fido network
as the systems which its 20-plus-year-old network stop being supported.
Second of all, I'm not talking about a mailing list.

The fact is there are always going to be those who hang on to old 
ways for a long time.  That's fine, and I encourage you and anyone
else who wishes to continue to explore ways of making Fidonet viable
well into the future.  Eventually, though, the time will come where 
it's just not feasable any more.

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