Comment on Techrights — Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era

HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can still get an account at eternal-september.org. There are a few newsgroups that are still active and interesting.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Better? No, it’s still unmoderated. So there’s some good stuff and there are twits. It’s the wild west out there.

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      • zloubida@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Could you recommend any non-computer related good newsgroup?

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• kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!

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    • kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It was already starting to predict what Web 2.0 would become!

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I tended to use moos, muds and mushes more than IRC. The servers crashed, but you never had to worry about netsplits.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ooh. I remember a star trek one that was really neat.

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