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Techrights — Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era

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I was more of a usenet type.
- You can still get an account at eternal-september.org. There are a few newsgroups that are still active and interesting.
  
  I mean they still existed in the 90's but were filled with shill ad type of postings. Have the postings gotten better?
  
  Better? No, it's still unmoderated. So there's some good stuff and there are twits. It's the wild west out there.
  
  Could you recommend any non-computer related good newsgroup?
  
  Yeah, that's an issue. There are still several computing-related groups, but everything else is fading away. The only non-computing one I read is misc.news.internet.discuss. The Vancouver Canucks and Montreal Canadiens newsgroups both seem to have died during the past year. The Canadian football group gets the occasional comment. The old alt hierarchies seem slow or crud-infested. But if you want to follow comp.misc or Seamonkey updates, you're in luck.
  
  I love to use obsolete technology, things that still perfectly work but are abandoned. But on the internet, these things are generally populated by computer scientists, and it's a thing I'm not 😅. It's the same thing on Gopher, Gemini (it's new but it's the same ethos), IRC, …
- Usenet wuz removedin'. 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.
  
  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!
  
  It was already starting to predict what Web 2.0 would become!
- I tended to use moos, muds and mushes more than IRC. The servers crashed, but you never had to worry about netsplits.
  
  ooh. I remember a star trek one that was really neat.

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