On 2023-01-20, Margaerynne <margaerynne@PALANT> wrote:

Greetings, friends!

Does anyone remember Usenet? Or, given the audience, does anyone _not_ remember Usenet?

For those of you who do, were you active? When did you join? Is there anything you miss or hated?
How does it compare to BBSes, then and now?

I was born right as it was hitting its peak, so it was well into decline before I would have been interested.
As such, there's a certain type of mythical shine to it, and it's both fascinating and charming to see the roots of
modern internet culture mixed with people's full name and address.

I'm from an area of the country where The Internet wasn't really a thing outside of universities until the late 90s, and my parents were well out of college by the time computers came around, so I don't actually know anyone from Usenet in person. Hence, well, me posting here where the old guard meets.

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I connect to Synchro.net thru NNTP. Also, I follow some tech based groups
in actual Usenet, too.

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Re: Re: Usenet
By: MRO to Havok on Wed Feb 01 2023 09:20 am

no i mean we never change how we do things. we are always separate in our little fishbowls. we never came together and that's probably part of the reason the internet took over so quickly and caused such harm to bbses.

Oh I agree, but I do not miss the slow speeds of a modem from back in the
day but I do miss the people. I remember rushing home to see how many
people logged on so far that day. Even then I think in 92 I had two message
networks lots of doors and they were played a lot by people that on one of
the two 9200 to 14400 modems, the first one being 9200.

But I guess you live with what you had and what you got now.

Thanks for the reply!


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Re: Re: Usenet
By: Havok to MRO on Sun Feb 12 2023 07:45 pm

people logged on so far that day. Even then I think in 92 I had two message
networks lots of doors and they were played a lot by people that on one of
the two 9200 to 14400 modems, the first one being 9200.

But I guess you live with what you had and what you got now.

well those days are gone and you can't even compare the 2.
what we are doing is not the same thing. There's people saying that now it's booming and things are great. that just goes to show you how delusional people can be. recently i switched my bbs to private. i'll open it back up when we have users again.
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MRO wrote to Havok <=-

people logged on so far that day. Even then I think in 92 I had two message
networks lots of doors and they were played a lot by people that on one of
the two 9200 to 14400 modems, the first one being 9200.

well those days are gone and you can't even compare the 2.
what we are doing is not the same thing. There's people saying
that now it's booming and things are great. that just goes to
show you how delusional people can be. recently i switched my bbs
to private. i'll open it back up when we have users again.

Ummmm.... quick question.

How will you get users again when .... your BBS is private?

LOL, you can't make this kind of clown show up!



... Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever.
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Re: Re: Usenet
By: Gamgee to MRO on Mon Feb 13 2023 08:46 pm

to private. i'll open it back up when we have users again.

Ummmm.... quick question.

How will you get users again when .... your BBS is private?

LOL, you can't make this kind of clown show up!

I think my brain is broken.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Usenet
By: MRO to Havok on Mon Feb 13 2023 05:48 pm

well those days are gone and you can't even compare the 2.
what we are doing is not the same thing. There's people saying that now it's booming and things are great. that just goes to show you how delusional people can be. recently i switched my bbs to private. i'll open it back up when we have users again.

Sad to say your right on the topic points.

But it is still hard for me to understand why, I guess being the Internet
you can surf all over and never throw a name in like you do with a bulletin
board. I have to laugh though being if the Internet ever went down and a
sysop has a modem or modem bank then things would look much different.

But being it is a hobby I'll just live with what we have, still the good
old days shine bright in my mind.




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Re: Re: Usenet
By: Havok to MRO on Tue Feb 14 2023 06:38 am

you can surf all over and never throw a name in like you do with a bulletin
board. I have to laugh though being if the Internet ever went down and a
sysop has a modem or modem bank then things would look much different.

well a lot of phones are now voip. i'm with spectrum aka charter and it's all voip.

if the internet went down we wouldn't have anything.
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Re: Re: Usenet
By: MRO to Havok on Tue Feb 14 2023 07:48 am

well a lot of phones are now voip. i'm with spectrum aka charter and it's all voip.

Where I'm one day going to move to I would be it is not, but also I have
been reading their are ways aorund that also. But it is true talk about
control.

I remember about 5 years ago when they did the big 1 gig rollout I did
a search on Japan rolling out 5 gig for 49.00 a month while here it was
rolling out 1 gig for some where around 79 to 99.00 a month talk about
rape!


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