I love to use obsolete technology, things that still perfectly work but are abandoned. But on the internet, these things are generally populated by computer scientists, and it’s a thing I’m not 😅. It’s the same thing on Gopher, Gemini (it’s new but it’s the same ethos), IRC, …
Usenet wuz bitchin’. I remember getting a couple of layers deep in the rock heirarchy (was it rock.history.50s-60s? ) and some great discussions, fact- and story- trading with peeps who went deep. Feedback was NOT instant, and so patience and quality were rewarded.
Then those brats with their binaries came along and bye-bye.
the pets ones were great to. I went back in the late 90’s and you can see writeups that were very obviously shills for like particular brands of petfood. That is when I knew I could never return!
I was more of a usenet type.
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I mean they still existed in the 90’s but were filled with shill ad type of postings. Have the postings gotten better?
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Could you recommend any non-computer related good newsgroup?
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I love to use obsolete technology, things that still perfectly work but are abandoned. But on the internet, these things are generally populated by computer scientists, and it’s a thing I’m not 😅. It’s the same thing on Gopher, Gemini (it’s new but it’s the same ethos), IRC, …
Usenet wuz bitchin’. I remember getting a couple of layers deep in the rock heirarchy (was it rock.history.50s-60s? ) and some great discussions, fact- and story- trading with peeps who went deep. Feedback was NOT instant, and so patience and quality were rewarded.
Then those brats with their binaries came along and bye-bye.
the pets ones were great to. I went back in the late 90’s and you can see writeups that were very obviously shills for like particular brands of petfood. That is when I knew I could never return!
It was already starting to predict what Web 2.0 would become!
I tended to use moos, muds and mushes more than IRC. The servers crashed, but you never had to worry about netsplits.
ooh. I remember a star trek one that was really neat.