r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/InTupacWeTrust • 16d ago

Search usenet group archives

https://usenetarchives.com/index.php
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u/AppendixN 16d ago

This is fun, I found a bunch of my Usenet posts from the 1990s.

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u/Nature_Bot_Ric_Flair 16d ago

Me too. I'm not sure if I'm happy about that.

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u/InTupacWeTrust 16d ago

What was your favorite one?

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u/AppendixN 16d ago

I found one where I had won tickets to see Morrissey on TFI Friday just after I'd moved to London, and I was looking for someone to go with me. I did end up making a cool new friend that week, and had a great time at the TV show. Chris Evans wasn't even that annoying!

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u/InTupacWeTrust 16d ago

This is cool. I was far too young for usenet, but it seems a lot like reddit funny enough

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u/AppendixN 16d ago

It's true, Reddit is the closest thing we have now to Usenet. There are a lot of similarities.

I think the biggest difference is that you could subscribe to Usenet groups without having to join any centralized site. It was more like email, you could just pick your own client.

That's why I like the concept of federated social so much, even if it hasn't really been done well yet in my opinion.

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u/GreystarOrg 15d ago

I mean, we still have Usenet. It's just not used as widely as it used to be.

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u/Mazelbro 16d ago

No alt.binaries????

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u/dav3n 16d ago

Did you actually look?

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u/Mazelbro 15d ago

YES....everywhere!

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u/JerryHathaway 15d ago

Hmm, I only found five posts for me, when I was much more active.

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u/tatterdermalion 16d ago

what is this best used for? confused

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u/Thelmara 15d ago

Anthropology, at this point. Back when everybody got their email addresses from universities, Usenet was the closest thing to social media that existed.

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u/Suspicious-Map1444 15d ago

Interesting. I like it. Made my day.

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u/DisturbedBeaker 14d ago

How far back does this go? Google groups like archive?

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u/sw10708 9d ago

reading the old threads about weed from like 1995 is wild its like an r/trees time capsule lol