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Why did Usenet fail? – Terence Eden’s Blog
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/06/why-did-usenet-fail/
This is annecdata - not a serious academic study. Adjust your expectations accordingly. When I first got online, the World Wide Web was still in its infancy - so CompuServe was my gateway to the Internet. I loved their well organised chat room. A couple of clicks and I could be discussing Babylon 5 with people in another country, downloading wallpapers, and uploading my poor attempts at…
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@bortzmeyer : Le grand retour en force de #Usenet ?
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@johncarlosbaez @CGM
There's a great guide here: <https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Getting_Started_with_Usenet>, it worked for me.
Usenet Big-8 Management BoardGetting Started with Usenet
Through the pages of John Baez <https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez> (see also <https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com>) I've seen that the sci.physics usenet newsgroup, especially sci.physics.research, always had quite interesting physics discussions; see for instance <https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics>.
Finally I managed to join, but it looks like I'm late to the party. Lots of spam and very insulting posts on sci.physics, and sci.physics.research (luckily a moderated group) seems to have very little activity – unless I'm misjudging the levels of activity of some years ago.
So I'd like to ask @johncarlosbaez (when/if he has time): what happened to these newsgroups? I'd be curious to hear the story. And which other similar newsgroups or venues are available today? Probably I'm not the only one with these wonderings. Cheers!
math.ucr.eduJohn Baez's Stuff
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Hello #hackers and #DIY friends,Im away from #Mastodon,the reality is that
never liked microblogging, I was one of the pionners because I do like the
open/decentralized internet,but now I'm using #usenet a LOT & the new cool #hacker
playgrounds #nomadnet #reticulum #LoRa #meshtastic,offgrid,decentralized,meshes
Come chat @ 'hispagatos HQ' @ 4ce9566abcec9619f67d181c5959dfdc in reticulum/nomadnet
in #usenet 2600.* and hispagatos.* comp.lang.go alt.comp.lang.rust newsgroups rek2.hispagatos.org
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@profoundlynerdy I had a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 as my main system at home for logging in to work (with its built-in 300 baud modem) for a couple of years. The display was 8x40. It worked just fine for email and newsgroups, IIRC. At least, I don't think I suffered any long-lasting trauma. ;-)
Back in the day when 40 column displays were common on microcomputers, was email and newsgroup participation with 80 column systems awkward? Be that FidoNet and Echomail or the real ARPANET / Internet if (somehow) available.
By the time I was connecting to BBS systems I had access to an 80 column machine, so I don't personally recall.
Hacker and free speech advocate Retro Guy has passed away.
I have been away from the Internet for at least a couple months. I came to quickly check my feeds and I am sad to have found report of the passing away of a very cool hacker, Thom Miller, known by the handle, Retro Guy. According to his wife Kaylen Miller, Thom died about two weeks ago from pancreatic cancer. He had a years-long struggle with cancer and multiple therapies and surgeries. During all the time of his illness he continued to hack away providing network access and software updates absolutely free to his user base. He was a strong believer in the value of open and decentralized communication for all. His software is simple and awesome, and useful for censorship-resistant communication. (https://gitlab.com/rslight-public/rocksolid-light)
Thom, known as Retro Guy, created the Rocksolid Light NNTP forums and server software. He served the hacker community as a free speech advocate and provider of free speech communication networking. He refused to censor opinions that he found offensive or stupid on the principle of the golden rule. He endured a lot of annoyances to provide service for many. Thom maintained the software for years giving web-based NNTP access to countless users. Thom was always helpful and patient with users needing assistance, even when he was feeling ill and suffering. He pushed through his pain to serve others with something he believed was a necessary tool and blessing for the general public.
I am sad to learn of Thom's passing. He will be missed and remembered. I will remember him by continuing to run his software.
More:
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=1024&group=rocksolid.nodes.help#1024
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https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=560&group=rocksolid.nodes.announce#560
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https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=561&group=rocksolid.nodes.announce#561
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https://www.novabbs.com/interests/article-flat.php?id=25410&group=alt.obituaries
#obituary #rocksolidlight #usenet #nntp #freespeech #cancer #condolences #networknews #retroguy #novabbs #bbs
I have been away from the Internet for at least a couple months. I came to quickly check my feeds and I am sad to have found report of the passing away of a very cool hacker, Thom Miller, known by the handle, Retro Guy. According to his wife Kaylen Miller, Thom died about two weeks ago from pancreatic cancer. He had a years-long struggle with cancer and multiple therapies and surgeries. During all the time of his illness he continued to hack away providing network access and software updates absolutely free to his user base. He was a strong believer in the value of open and decentralized communication for all. His software is simple and awesome, and useful for censorship-resistant communication. (https://gitlab.com/rslight-public/rocksolid-light)
Thom, known as Retro Guy, created the Rocksolid Light NNTP forums and server software. He served the hacker community as a free speech advocate and provider of free speech communication networking. He refused to censor opinions that he found offensive or stupid on the principle of the golden rule. He endured a lot of annoyances to provide service for many. Thom maintained the software for years giving web-based NNTP access to countless users. Thom was always helpful and patient with users needing assistance, even when he was feeling ill and suffering. He pushed through his pain to serve others with something he believed was a necessary tool and blessing for the general public.
I am sad to learn of Thom's passing. He will be missed and remembered. I will remember him by continuing to run his software.
More:
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=1024&group=rocksolid.nodes.help#1024
More:
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=560&group=rocksolid.nodes.announce#560
More:
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=561&group=rocksolid.nodes.announce#561
More:
https://www.novabbs.com/interests/article-flat.php?id=25410&group=alt.obituaries
#obituary #rocksolidlight #usenet #nntp #freespeech #cancer #condolences #networknews #retroguy #novabbs #bbs
"Usenet Reborn" is an Usenet and NNTP TUI client in Rust language, in alpha stage!
- https://sr.ht/~rek2/Usenet_Reborn/
Now that I have a 1.0.1 released for my #NNTP library called "rek2_nntp" https://crates.io/crates/rek2_nntp was able to go ahead and get "Usenet Reborn" client in a usable stage a brand new #usenet client in #TUI format using the #ratatui #rust #libs not a rust expert so patches are WELLCOME to both projects! #hackers #hackerculture #decentralization
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One has to ask, at this point:
Is #DonaldJTrump a Usenet troll?
Several of the Five Unmistakable Marks are there.
jdebp.ukFGA: The Five Unmistakable Marks
**Released rek2_nntp 1.0** a #usenet #nntp #rust library
I still need to polish some things this next month on a 1.0.1
- https://crates.io/crates/rek2_nntp
- https://git.sr.ht/~rek2/rek2_nntp
Hope someone will find it useful, I did got on my older versions still in alpha a bunch of downloads from crates.io I started this because I am also writing a #TUI usenet client and after that I hope to write something for android (this is harder for
me)
#happyHacking #Hacking #hispagatos
Patches welcome using git email
ReK2
crates.iocrates.io: Rust Package Registry
Geheimwaffe Freundlichkeit: Welche "Netiquetten" gelten heute noch?
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000262445/geheimwaffe-freundlichkeit-welche-netiquetten-gelten-heute-noch?ref=rss
Ich fand den Umgangston im #Internet zu Zeiten von #Netiquette + Leuten, die sie kannten und respektierten deutlich besser.
Und das hatte aus meiner Sicht kaum bis gar nichts mit dem Thema Sietzen zu tun, wie die Kommentare im Artikel suggerieren.
DER STANDARD · Geheimwaffe Freundlichkeit: Welche "Netiquetten" gelten heute noch?In den 90ern, der frühen Phase des World Wide Web, entstanden viele "Netiquetten", also Verhaltensregeln für Nutzer. Wie aktuell sind diese noch? Was hat sich im Netz verändert, was nicht?
vale por fin termine de pasar los videos no relacionados al hacking/cyberpunk/anarchohacking/etc de:
- https://odysee.com/@Hackernol:7
al canal nuevo enfocador solo a Juegos de Linux
- https://odysee.com/@mmorpg:0
ahora a meter el #RSS en el bot de usenet para nuestros newsgroups de hispagatos.*
OdyseeHackerñol Para Hackers en EspañolHackerñol
Netnews: The Origin Story by @SteveBellovin - as seen on the [ih] list. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10588955 #usenet
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ѦਹѤʞ @Daojoan
LOL! "2001"? The Internet was well past its best by then. Peak fun and usefulness was in the mid-to-late '90s.
#Internet #Usenet #nostalgia #retrocomputing
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@stanikomania @bartlomiejnestvarno może zgrzeszę, ale ja nigdy nie byłam fanką forów. Pracowałam tam, nigdy nie korzystałam prywatnie. Prywatnie pisywałam w #usenet, na #joggerpl i na @blip
Ale zawodowo uważam, że tak, fora z ich wątkowaniem, różnorodnością i mozliwościami technicznymi to zmarnowana gałąź ewolucji Internetu.
Chciałabym fora z możliwością tagowania, obserwowania znajomych, zapisywania wątków.
Ale chyba nie ma szans powrotu do tego.
PS.
Profil użyrtkownika był moim pomysłem. Żeby było zabawniej, gdzieś w okolicy 2008-09 napisałam dla Gazety projet serwisu, który w feedzie pokazywałby własne posty, pozwalał na dodawanie znajomych, a po lewej miał menu.
Niestety mój ówczeny szef uznał, że to pomysł zupełnie bez przyszłości. A Zuck nie miał szefa i sam se napisał.
Sad news of Mozilla. It's time, finally, to delete Firefox.
Now I want to replace Thunderbird. It's been a battle recently, slow or freezing, unable to connect to the usenet server.
Yes, I still use Usenet. Not for binaries, but for the discussion groups. They are somewhat deserted now, but perhaps some of those who followed the lures of money-making platforms will return.
#Recommendations, please, for access to #Usenet?