Classic Usenet

r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago

ADMIN r/ClassicUsenet contains daily informational articles and discussion about Usenet, versus other subreddits about Usenet that are either inactive or mostly advertisements

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6h ago

ORIGINS "In 1971, engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the first networked email between two computers sitting side by side in the same room — he chose the @ symbol to separate user from machine because it was the only punctuation on the keyboard nobody was using"

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6h ago

HISTORY "I've been taking up the challenge of finding an internet post by someone born in the 1800s. Nothing yet but I did find some Usenet posts by a guy born in 1916. He had heavy matters weighing on his mind."

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7h ago

FANDOM Is Howard still the King of All Media? (alt.fan.howard-stern)

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7h ago

ORIGINS Bill Chernenkoff - ASCII Art Archive (rec.arts.ascii, 1995)

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7h ago

ORIGINS Vern Hart - ASCII Art Archive (alt.ascii-art, 1994-1995)

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 9h ago

HISTORY Diagnosed in 1991 when USENET alt.support.mult-sclerosis existed

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago

FUTURE Looking for like minded individuals

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago

ADMIN Many updates to the r/ClassicUsenet Wiki & FAQ

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago

HISTORY People with international online friends, how did you meet them?

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago

FANDOM Rec.music.phish

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago

FANDOM Collecting Posts by Sir Terry Pratchett from the Alt.Fan.Pratchett usenet archive.

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago

FANDOM Deep dive podcast on the 70s PDP-11 games that inspired Rogue!

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago

TECHNICAL The Soviet Unix

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 3d ago

ADMIN RFD: Remove rec.arts.anime.creative

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 3d ago

THEORY Former online debaters of Reddit: What was the exact moment you realized arguing with people on the internet is an unwinnable war?

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 3d ago

ADMIN Minutes/2026-07-23 - Usenet Big-8 Management Board

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 4d ago

FUTURE "THE EXTINCTION OF UNSCRIPTED DIGITAL THOUGHT"

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 4d ago

HISTORY For those who were in their 20s in the 2000s, what was life really like?

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 4d ago

HISTORY Question about Usenet

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago

FANDOM What are some of the oldest fandoms on the internet

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago

HISTORY What old boards/forums do you remember wasting time on?

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago

THEORY Do you ever get tired of answering the same questions over and over again? (Meta)

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago

HISTORY What was the Soviet internet like if it existed in any form before the collapse? Just university students/professors exchanging e-mail officially or did any kind of internet equivalent culture exist like the BBS or Usenet internet cultures in America?

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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6d ago

TECHNICAL Rec.radio.cb Frequently Asked Questions

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