Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told
NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
When they effectively make the internet a dangerous place, Usenet will rise from the darkness. P2P will also always exist and these politicians dont understand computer math, so a lot of what they’re trying to accomplish is bound to fail.
Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 2 months ago
As someone who just read the Wikipedia article on Usenet and doesn’t know anything else about it Would this be pretty much the equivalent of the internet before search engines? Because if so I’m really intrigued
phar@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Never mind search engines, Usenet was being used before people were using web browsers.
Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 2 months ago
I’ll read up on it, seems interesting
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
From my small understanding, usenet was like several forums loosely connected to one another, many servers are used mainly for filesharing. Every time I’ve checked some servers, all of them had a paywall to create an account.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Think fediverse less features more text