Re:Google's 20th Birthday
by eponeponepon on Thursday September 27, 2018 @02:29PM
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Man I miss Usenet. Last time I used a news client was 2006, working at a firm that had an internal NNTP server for announcements, general chatter, for sale ads etc.
I don't think anyone under 30 would have a clue what to do with newsgroups these days.
reddit.com/r/usenet/ is active. But it's not about text anymore.
Re:Google's 20th Birthday
by tenaciousDaniel on Thursday September 27, 2018 @02:31PM
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The Information Superhighway
Re:Google's 20th Birthday
by cdcfa78156ae5 on Thursday September 27, 2018 @03:23PM
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> usenet was actually usable
When did it stop? comp.lang.* is still pretty active.
snippets here and there keep trucking, but I think it's fair to say Usenet in it's entirety is not what it used to be.
Back then we had only physical servers (as a practical concern), Linux was considered risky to rely on, there was no social media, and everything on the web was expressed in highway metaphors and spoken of in capital letters ("The World Wide Web"). "Digital" was considered a fancy word, and to the average geek high speed access meant ISDN, while the average person was just starting to be able to imitate a 14400 baud modem connection sound. Wireless wasn't a thing (draft standard I think) and usenet was actually usable.