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Tim Pierce ([personal profile] topaz) wrote2006-10-04 09:46 am
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truer words were never spoke

From my dear friend [livejournal.com profile] crouchback:
History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce.  Usenet was the tragedy, and many parts of LJ are the farce.
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[identity profile] crouchback.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
This is, of course, a reference to The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/index.htm), which opens with a similar line.

So part of it wasn't my own doing.

[identity profile] stephe.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Cf. also Geocities and MySpace.

[identity profile] dr-memory.livejournal.com 2006-10-06 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Those who do not remember usenet are doomed to reimplement it -- poorly." --me
ext_8707: Taken in front of Carnegie Hall (milkman rone)

[identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com 2006-10-15 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
What does that make MySpace?
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