# Comp.lang.fortran and Fortran-lang relation **URL:** \ **Category:** Meta\ **Created:** [October 7, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/comp-lang-fortran-and-fortran-lang-relation/4495 "2022-10-07T21:18:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/comp-lang-fortran-and-fortran-lang-relation/4495/9 "2022-10-19T17:16:46Z")
> [@PierU](#): > > I am accessing it through the [news.individual.net](http://news.individual.net) nntp server, and I don’t see a lot of spam there (the server is doing a good job at filtering the spam). I am using [news.dotsrc.org](http://news.dotsrc.org) and since June there is ~30 spams posts. Sometimes there is no spam, and sometimes there is. Maybe the antispam soft is learning to eliminate certain kinds of message, until new kinds emerge? For people interested by comp.lang.fortran history, there is that post: > [@Comp.lang.fortran: 37 years of discourse](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/comp-lang-fortran-37-years-of-discourse/1071): > > Before the Discourse, before the forums, before the Web… In the early 2000’s, the buzz was about the Web 2.0 and its technologies allowing anybody to post content in a web page: comments, forums, wikis were born… In the 90’s the Web 1.0 was mainly static : you were either the author or the reader. And before, there was no web… astonished But wait, where Sir [Tim Berners-Lee announced his WorldWideWeb (WWW) project](http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroup%2Falt.hypertext%2Fmsg%2F06dad279804cb3ba%3Fdmode%3Dsource) if there was no web? thinking[Usenet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet) was created in 1979-80, and there you cou… --- _[View the full topic](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/comp-lang-fortran-and-fortran-lang-relation/4495)._