Usenet Newsgroups - Are They Relevant?
@dasgeek wrote: Usenet newsgroups were never on my radar even when they were pretty popular a decade or so ago. Recently, I stumbled upon Reddit groups talking about newsgroups. I decided to explore...
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@TerryL wrote: I hadn’t looked at Usenet Newsgtroups for maybe 5 years so last month I finally got around to cancelling my subscription to the Giganews service. It was several years before I stopped...
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@Sar wrote: I haven’t used Newsgroups in a good decade or more. I used to be a fairly fervent user about 15-20 years ago, but since web forums like vBulletin and all of its successors (such as...
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@BCupps wrote: THIS. Back in the day (damn that makes me sound old) they were the go-to for darn near everything & I used them extensively. However, with web forums & various social media...
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@Trent wrote: As with many things, spammers ruin everything. They are now all filled with spam. and kids with nothing better to do than flood the groups with BS. When you would complain to the source...
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@allan_m wrote: I would agree with some of the others who responded that usenet became over the last few years a wasteland in some respects, but there are some spots of life and relevance for some of...
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@ak2020 wrote: Newsgroups were a fascinating thing before the web took off (and yes, I did browse them from time to time before even Mosaic and Netscape were around) but since then I’ve not really...
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@Trent wrote: Usenet is a peer sharing system. Nobody can buy anything (except a server to setup) then it shares all the messages across all the servers. Google did setup their own Usenet servers, but...
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@djvbmd wrote: Wow, those are still around?!! Worth some nostalgia for those of us who used them in their heyday, but I don’t think much more than that. Now there are too many options for community...
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@esbeeb wrote: Now that compute power and hosting is cheap enough that any community that puts its mind to it can host a Discourse server (or suchlike, but there’s no forum software that I like better...
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@allan_m wrote: Re Google Groups – back in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, there was a site called Deja-News (I can’t remember if the hyphen was there or if it was just one word) whose stated...
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@Trent wrote: Thanks for that info. I was not paying mich attention to Google in those days. I recall the Deja site. I recall it was a product review/comparison site. I had not realized they had...
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Usenet Newsgroups - Are They Relevant?
@TerryL wrote: Trent: Nearly every ISP offered usenet with their service so I never had a reason to look for other sources for it. Yeah, my ISP (BT Internet) used to provide it and I used it some....
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@mwbworld wrote: I used to use them back in the day but discussion boards and various social media (do we count reddit as a grand discussion or kissing cousin to social media?) totally displaced it....
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@yawanathanisrael wrote: Wow, BBS’s now that is when things were fun and exciting! Read full topic
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@Trent wrote: There are still some BBSs online connected via the internet. Even on the old Commodore 64 Read full topic
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@Trent wrote: I recall when a me and a friend were kids, we got ahold of an unlisted Sprint or MCI customer long distance access number. It was crazy because they only used 4 digit PINs to access long...
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@ak2020 wrote: Wow - do you have a working C64? It was my first home computer. I used to find the power supplies and cassette players didn’t last Read full topic
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@Trent wrote: No, not in a long while. I just don’t have the space to keep all the old stuff laying around. People stopped using cassette player after the prices of the floppy drive started going...
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@djvbmd wrote: Yep! And I remember having software (we’re talking Apple II+ here) that would actually use your modem to very slowly brute force your way to discovering new Sprint or MCI numbers, too....
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