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Death of Usenet (+1)
ebh 7 hours ago
I'm old enough to remember one of the earliest "Death of Usenet" scares: The creation of the 100th newsgroup, long before the Great Renaming.
"Your message will cost the net hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to send everywhere. Are you absolutely sure you want to do this?"
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The internet does not forget (+2)
allo 6 hours ago
You think your awkward posts are gone forever when a service shuts down? Someone will upload an archive in a few decades.
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No, need you young whippersnappers (+1)
nospam007 5 hours ago
We wrote most of them!
And Google Groups should have most of them too.
In the olden days, with slow modems, alt.tasteless.jokes were our only fun at work.
https://groups.google.com/g/al...
But now it's mostly Spam.
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Can't even find my old posts... (+1)
SuperKendall 5 hours ago
I was pretty active on Usenet for a long time...
Looking through this, I can't seem to find any my old posts... I think they are probably in there, I just can't quite remember what groups I was in most frequently, or seemingly even the handle I used to post under...
Cool to have this accessible (and searchable) though.
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Sounds like Archive.org should get involved (+1)
chipperdog 4 hours ago
Sounds like something archive.org should get involved with. It fits their mission and they have the infrastructure
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Good (+1)
Malays2 bowman a few seconds ago
Because I've been dreading the day that Google might decide to shut down groups.google.com, possibly without warning, thus erasing decades of Usenet history. They already started fucking around with the interface, using larger fonts/less content on the screen, pandering to the Lowest Fucking Common Denominator. It's only a matter of time before GG users are told by Google to go fuck themselves.
I'm glad somebody is doing the work to prevent the loss of Usenet history.
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