"the problem with my political opponents who keep winning elections is that they are deeply unpopular" is pretty much the definition of copium
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![NeXT), but the great thing about usenet is that there are so many bright and weird people out there, that if you put any idea the right way and in the right place, the chances are fairly high that somone to whom it makes sense will pick it up.
[[UNDERLINED:: The project started getting feedback from people who saw it as a rather simple version of Hypercard(TM), an over complex information system, a frustratingly inconsistent database, or an idea which appealed to some latent excitement about how things could be.]]
From then on, interested people on the Internet provided the feedback, the stimulation, the ideas, source code contributions, and the moral support which it would have been hard to find locally. The people of the internet built the web.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:67r4c5cbfofo2p5bq6zqajbv/bafkreifakoovx5gbwwbuybcph6xg5pstirdzab4h6uvxh3iu3as34o74ym)
