Firstly, let's not attack gadys, s/he is entitled to their opinion; and has a valid point that I am technically re-inventing the wheel, but--

The original implementation of this forum was 700 lines of code. It took three days to make.

If I had tried to make a UI around Usenet, I would still be here coding months later. In likelihood, I would not have bothered and just used Google Groups, which I would neither own, nor control, nor could I style it how I wanted.

The fact is that in three days and less than a thousand lines of text, I created a system that lets people across the world communicate with each other. 50 years ago that would have been heralded as one of the greatest achievements of mankind; now it's a common every-day occurrence.

I set my goals, and I met them in the shortest time and simplest implementation. The end result though is what matters, and not the implementation. Be it usenet or RSS, we're able to have this discussion.