Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 14/9/2023
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 14/9/2023
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So with all the nostalgia for Web 1.0 lately I signed up for an account on eternal-september and now I'm trying to remember all the usenet groups I used to be obsessed with oh, about 25 years ago.
I’m very experienced with usenet, still using it since around the early 1990’s. Nowadays, the old chat forum style has basically gone, and it is now essentially just binaries used for movies/tv/audio/magazines/xxx
Indexers list the contents, and providers give the access. I get downloads from Europe at 50-60 MBytes/sec. There are automation apps to auto download what you are after as soon as it is posted.
The old text forums are still there, but are mostly just full of spam.
I never got into usenet. Let us know when you remember the good ones 🙂
So far, the nz.general page is full of posts from a conspiracy nut banging on about who invented covid and other assorted bollocks, and the nz.arts has been taken over by one person posting their poetry.
This lemmy instance is definitely a much better place to hang out.
Ah, that's disappointing. I guess I'll stay here then 🙂