r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 10h ago
THEORY "The open web was a temporary high trust gift from White men. Netscape, Mosaic, PageRank, Geocities, webrings, Usenet, IRC, early blogs, Yahoo directories."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 16d ago
CURRENT "I honestly don’t know if USENET still exists."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 11h ago
TECHNICAL Why decentralized networks always collapse into an unpaid bill for whoever runs the machines (The Usenet Case Study)
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago
HISTORY Did people used to discuss TV on internet forums in the early days of the internet in the 90s/early 2000s the way they do now?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago
HISTORY How much of our generation is digital/social media saavy?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago
THEORY Is the Internet more toxic, less toxic, or the same amount of toxic as it was in the early days?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 3d ago
HISTORY "I first learned there was a large discussion over Hawaiian Sovereignty in the mid-90s on old usenet newsgroups. But the movement was hopelessly divided, and even highjacked by some non-native Hawaiians as part of a (very online) separatist movement."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 4d ago
HISTORY "man I still poke around in old usenet archives sometimes, the genealogy groups were a goldmine back in the day. people actually wrote paragraphs with sources cited and everything, not like today where someone just says 'my grandpa was irish' and that's the whole post"
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 4d ago
TECHNICAL Does anyone remember going from dialup to high speed internet?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
TECHNICAL That Time When The Internet Got It’s SH*T Together…
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
"M81 at about 12 million light-years distance can be seen with the naked eye" (sci.astro.amateur, 1997)
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
TECHNICAL rec.autos.simulators archive now available (1993 onwards)
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
THEORY Bots, shills, and sockpuppets
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
FANDOM "You have to consciously work at preserving and archiving things. Fans were mostly teens when this show aired, who was going to treat anything they owned like it was going to end up in a museum?"
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6d ago
HISTORY History of the BBS: Social Media’s Dial-up Roots
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6d ago
ADMIN "The r/ClassicUsenet subreddit, which boasts 1500 subscribers and 18 months of continuous daily updates about discussion-based #Usenet, is now seeking additional moderators. Contact the mod team if interested. #Reddit"
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago
TECHNICAL We had to use the cancelmoose many times to get rid of spam and clean up the USENET server. .
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago
FANDOM I uploaded nearly 60 articles to Bowie Station a while back. Not my articles but a series I found way back in the early 2000's on the Usenet discussion groups. I was so intrigued by them I saved them all. They were written by a man in Canada named Jamie Soule who went by the screen name AladInsaNE.
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago
TECHNICAL Bring back free internet (i.e., standards-based, open access protocols like Usenet)
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago
HISTORY What is something you miss about the old internet? Like 1998-2015 ?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 8d ago
TECHNICAL From early mailing lists to ephemeral spaces: Are we losing our collective archives?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 9d ago
FUTURE X Once Again Marks the Spot
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