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.
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!
I was more of a usenet type.
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.
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!
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.
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.