Usenet wuz bitchin’. I remember getting a couple of layers deep in the rock heirarchy and some great discussion with peeps who went deep. Then those brats with their binaries came along and bye-bye.
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HubertManne@piefed.social 2 months ago
I was more of a usenet type.
kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 months ago
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!
kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was already starting to predict what Web 2.0 would become!
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I tended to use moos, muds and mushes more than IRC. The servers crashed, but you never had to worry about netsplits.
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 months ago
ooh. I remember a star trek one that was really neat.
BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 months ago
I mean they still existed in the 90's but were filled with shill ad type of postings. Have the postings gotten better?
BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Could you recommend any non-computer related good newsgroup?