Comment on Techrights — Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era
BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month agoYou can still get an account at eternal-september.org. There are a few newsgroups that are still active and interesting.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 month 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 1 month ago
Better? No, it’s still unmoderated. So there’s some good stuff and there are twits. It’s the wild west out there.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Could you recommend any non-computer related good newsgroup?
BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Yeah, that’s an issue. There are still several computing-related groups, but everything else is fading away. The only non-computing one I read is misc.news.internet.discuss. The Vancouver Canucks and Montreal Canadiens newsgroups both seem to have died during the past year. The Canadian football group gets the occasional comment. The old alt hierarchies seem slow or crud-infested. But if you want to follow comp.misc or Seamonkey updates, you’re in luck.