Kurt Cobain

Paul Beard reminded me that yesterday was the 10th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death, which also reminded me that Cobain's death was the first time in my life that I got breaking news first from "amateur" journalists via the Internet. Back then, I wasn't reading a blog, I was reading alt.music.nirvana on Usenet. I can't find the original post, but I recall it saying something about a body being found at Kurt Cobain's house in Seattle, and the author suggested that it might be Cobain. This was hours before I heard the news from any major media outlet. At the time, Usenet functioned much like the blogosphere does now, but without the conveniences of RSS and HTTP (and despite the usability issues in various RSS aggregators, we've come a long way from trn).

Through the magic of Google, I found a post of mine to alt.society.generation-x about Cobain's death. Ah, youth.