And it is.

But is it 'audio', Usenet or the the Internet generally? I also hooked up to
a number of (digital) photography newsgroups and they are mostly silent with
the few that do have some traffic usually getting less than a dozen posts a
day.

Elsewhere, eBay is very flaccid these days with reams of identical auctions
from traders (mostly Chinese) and no end of secondhand items getting no bids
at all - it looks like in the UK, at least, used budget audio gear isn't
making money worth the hassle of packing it up and lugging it to the post
office!! (I've got one or two items I'll never use again but I CBA to try
and punt them - especially with the current 'credit crunch'!)

It goes on: Most websites I've looked at recently haven't been updated for
at least 2 years and no end of cross-referenced websites come back with the
'404 tough titty' screen. A lot more Wiki pages are loaded with disputes and
queries these days and more websites and forums are asking for donations and
subscriptions; popular, 'useful' sites like the IMDB are so plastered with
advertising and pop-ups they are becoming almost too tiresome to use

Then there's more talk of censorship and restriction at national levels - is
it the end of the Internet as we knew it...??

(Or is it now evolving into the *Disinternet* and is that a bad thing
anyway - instant access to endless everything and almost all of it not worth
the bother!!)