content: I'm like you in that i've been on the net for a while.  I was in a large metro area but at the time, you could barely even FIND an ISP in the phone book, let alone a BBS (I was way to young to have a job).  AOL/Prodigy/Compuserv was really the only way to get online in those days and AOL took me to Usenet. I'm still amused with forum sites like Voat because people think "Oh, this is so new and cool, you can create all these groups and so many people are using them!" Usenet was the place where just about EVERYONE ON THE ENTIRE INTERNET discussed things and it was beautiful.  Now it's all WAREZ and pirated content.  I don't think anyone uses it as a forum anymore.