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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by Melting_Harps on Thursday February 13, 2020 @02:00PM (#22320345)
Who do you use? I had Cox because they were the only one left offering usenet (albeit capped).

I was a really late adopter to torrents because of my background in usenet, sometime around 2010 all the alt.binaries I used to frequent went dead or were broken with little par2 support.

It was a great time back in the early 2000s, though.

If I'm honest, I don't download as much as I used to, but I do miss the niche communities based on those groups, though. They have since moved to IRC but for the most part its all gone from what I can tell.

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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by chungus_khan on Friday February 14, 2020 @09:57AM (#22327055)
Cogeco in my case. No cap either, which is pretty cool.

Those little niche communities on usenet were what originally got me so excited about the internet. Both participating in ones that interested me and just exploring all sorts of interesting little communities.

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