truer words were never spoke

[topaz]

From my dear friend crouchback:

History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce.  Usenet was the tragedy, and many parts of LJ are the farce.

Comments

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

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.

[stephe.livejournal.com]

Cf. also Geocities and MySpace.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

"Those who do not remember usenet are doomed to reimplement it -- poorly." --me

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

What does that make MySpace?