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.
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Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 3 days agoAs 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
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 days ago
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Think fediverse less features more text
phar@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Never mind search engines, Usenet was being used before people were using web browsers.
Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 2 days ago
I’ll read up on it, seems interesting