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

• BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • zloubida@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I love to use obsolete technology, things that still perfectly work but are abandoned. But on the internet, these things are generally populated by computer scientists, and it’s a thing I’m not 😅. It’s the same thing on Gopher, Gemini (it’s new but it’s the same ethos), IRC, …

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