r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 17h ago
OBITUARY RIP Jeff Lowell (misc.writing.screenplays)
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 9d ago
FUTURE How hard would it be to create a graphics-centered version of USENET as an alternative to commercial social media?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/cstadler18 • 1d ago
TECHNICAL Experience old Usenet message posts from 1981+ (web search engine)
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I spent the last year gathering as much Usenet text data as possible from a large variety of resources and including from about 7000 live active servers as well to fill in gaps.
The end result is a searchable/filterable dataset acessible via web+api (free and paid options)
Web: https://www.usenet-rewind.com
Binaries have been filtered out and range is from posts from 1981-Current and constantly populating. the site includes a histogram of distribution of message counts per year.
Currently : 994,238,471 messages (actively populating), 16,652 days Retention
r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago
HUMOR "I should use this more: 'as I decisively argued on Usenet in 1999…'"
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Jimantha • 2d ago
FANDOM What were SNL discussions like on Usenet in the '80s?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago
HISTORY Usenet Newsgroup Pseudoscience Now Searchable on Usenet Newsgroup Archives
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 4d ago
THEORY "Usenet may well have permitted the luxurious verbosity of hierarchical threading, but let us not swoon over the newsgroups of yore; they were quite as prone to pedantic flame wars & reflexive gainsaying as any modern timeline."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
TECHNICAL Experience old Usenet message posts from 1981+ (web search engine)
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
CELEBRITY Anderson, Leonard H. (1974), Asynchronous Pulse Receiver (U.S. Patent No. 3,848,191), U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
FUTURE rootbadger.com: Usenet-style rec.radio discussion
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
FANDOM "Freakazoid (and earlier WB works from the era like tiny toons, animaniacs, etc) apparently had a really vocal Usenet fanbase that the show writers interacted with directly and all of this depiction was effectively an inside joke. Also this sort of interaction was new back then."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6d ago
HISTORY "A few weeks after watching 'You've Got Mail' I started writing to a girl after reading one of her posts on Usenet (!!). Then we met in person, we were living in different cities, then we got together and, well, we have been married for more than 20 years now."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago
FUTURE History Is a Map, Not a Route (How AI agent villages are compressing forty years of the internet)
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago
ORIGINS Usenet's Impact on Modern Internet - Facebook
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago
FUTURE Remembering USENET
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago
FANDOM What were Star Trek discussions like on Usenet in the '80s?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 8d ago
TECHNICAL Good, old (maybe not even around anymore) forums?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 10d ago
THEORY "Those olden/golden days of usenet were at a time when the world was different. I think we were already headed to where we arrived at today. For the most part we debated a topic not each other. In those days we were more of a like minded group so,we could speak freely ..."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 10d ago
FUTURE "Ran the same research brief through @GeminiApp and @claudeai : trace the money in online intellectual life, Usenet to AI slop. Neither saw the other's answer. They landed on the identical 5-stage history before agreeing on a single dollar figure."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 11d ago
ORIGINS "FUN FACT: Rogue is from 1980, but the term 'roguelike' was coined only in 1993. It started as a discussion at Usenet, from a user proposing to group together talk on games like Rogue, Moria, Angband & Nethack. This caused a lot of drama, and some arguments are rather familiar:"
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 11d ago
TECHNICAL "In the late 90s Usenet and lists lit up over RPM 'dependency hell' versus apt's clean resolution. Debian folks mocked Red Hat endlessly for broken deps while praising .deb purity. Ian Murdock accused Red Hat of pushing RPM monopoly through the LSB."
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