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Techrights — Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era (techrights.org)
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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I was more of a usenet type.

[–] BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can still get an account at eternal-september.org. There are a few newsgroups that are still active and interesting.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean they still existed in the 90's but were filled with shill ad type of postings. Have the postings gotten better?

[–] BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Better? No, it's still unmoderated. So there's some good stuff and there are twits. It's the wild west out there.

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Could you recommend any non-computer related good newsgroup?

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Usenet wuz bitchin'. I remember getting a couple of layers deep in the rock heirarchy (was it rock.history.50s-60s? ) and some great discussions, fact- and story- trading with peeps who went deep. Feedback was NOT instant, and so patience and quality were rewarded.

Then those brats with their binaries came along and bye-bye.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the pets ones were great to. I went back in the late 90's and you can see writeups that were very obviously shills for like particular brands of petfood. That is when I knew I could never return!

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It was already starting to predict what Web 2.0 would become!

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I tended to use moos, muds and mushes more than IRC. The servers crashed, but you never had to worry about netsplits.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

ooh. I remember a star trek one that was really neat.