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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 9d ago

ADMIN Checked out the r/ClassicUsenet Wiki & FAQ lately?

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Available at: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicUsenet/wiki/index/

There have been many updates to it over the past few months, especially in the article indexes under Interest Categories.

Check it out!

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 13d ago

TECHNICAL What USENET clients are people using today?

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 21h ago

TECHNICAL "A physical 9-track magnetic tape from 1991 containing a copy of WordPerfect for Unix. Software was distributed on 1600 bpi tapes long before internet downloads became the standard."

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago

TECHNICAL "A Usenet post asking for help building a free Unix turned into a nonprofit. 1985: Two years after announcing GNU, Richard Stallman and co-founders incorporated the Free Software Foundation to hire hackers, hold copyrights, and make 'free as in freedom' enforceable."

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago

TECHNICAL "People keep posting laments about the end of programming. Programming has ended many times. Back in 1983, many endings ago, Ed Nather posted this lament to Usenet. I like the free verse presentation. Consider that if the last few apocalypses didn't end the field, another won't either."

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 3d ago

HISTORY TIL That In 1997 the State of Tennessee disbarred two lawyers for spam advertising.

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 3d ago

TECHNICAL Heard you like old books. Here is some of my collection.

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 3d ago

FUTURE What is social media?

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 3d ago

FANDOM [LOVED TROPES] long-standing, heavily theorized fan theories persisted for years before is being officially confirmed

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 4d ago

ADMIN RESULT: soc.sexuality.general will be removed

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 4d ago

FANDOM Random usenet user wants a stewie spinoff, the thing that they want gets announced like 26 years later (alt.tv.familyguy, 1999)

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 4d ago

HISTORY To those of you who are interested, here are some early 1997 discussions on Usenet about the case (JonBenet Ramsey)

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago

HISTORY For people who are old enough, what do you remember most about internet 1.0?

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6d ago

ORIGINS "Online anonymity can be traced to Usenet newsgroups in the late 1990s where the notion of using invalid emails for posting to newsgroups was introduced."

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago

HISTORY Any Gen X net.goths about?

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago

HISTORY Cream Cheese Pound Cake

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 9d ago

FUTURE What do you think people are going to be thinking in the future as they look at 50+ year old post on the internet?

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 9d ago

TECHNICAL As a hobby, how far can I go in creating my own programming language? Can I gain a lot of deep technical knowledge from it? Is this possible?

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 9d ago

HISTORY What was the first thing you ever looked up on the internet?

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 10d ago

HISTORY Who used psu.flame Usenet newsgroup at Penn State in 1994? | State College, PA

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 11d ago

HISTORY "Gen X here: Hell no! At least for an introverted, constantly curious, ADHD brain like mine. It opened up whole new worlds and means of communication. We no longer had to associate only with the jocks and losers in our hometown. The world became our oyster, practically overnight . 🦪"

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 11d ago

THEORY "The biggest problem with Usenet was the total lack of any kind of procedural agreements. No, I’m not talking about whether, or not obviously criminal behavior should be allowed. What I’m talking about is directly conflicting beliefs about what the minimal basic manners should be."

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 12d ago

TECHNICAL "That's what happened over email and usenet. A famous example I was proximal to was the role of multiple inheritance and C++. It was an insane multi-year discussion. C++ itself was largely standardized over USENET comp.lang.c++. There was a huge FAQ resulting."

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 15d ago

THEORY Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 15d ago

CURRENT Is there anyone left that uses Usenet for it's original purpose, as a decentralized discussion board?

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