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Re:Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secre... by dylan604 on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:43PM (#49884079)
Just wondering what an internet archive for usenet groups might have looked like. Back then, it was cool to have messages have a finite time limit before going away. Snapchat isn't an original idea. Now, unless you're Snap, it's anathema for a company to think that willingly removing user content would be a good idea.
Re:Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secre... by jasonfarnon on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:20PM (#49886292)
Snap isn't a new idea but the motivation, to my understanding, is completely different. It was a technical limitation in the usenet days, both hdd space and bandwidth. Goodness I can still remember what one user on alt.binaries could do to our university network in the 90s.
Re:Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secre... by someonebaggy on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:44PM (#49884853)
Usenet archives exist
Re:Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secre... by Dead_Lemon on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:02AM (#49892517)
https://olduse.net/ Experience legacy usenet in real-time. You can subscribe to different start points and receive posts as they were sent, 40+ years ago.