Posted on 03/11/2006 3:12:58 PM PST by Drew68
Obscure? I remember fondly days long ago and spending long hours on alt.drunken.bastards and alt.tasteless with my IBM 486 33mhz desktop and 3.2kbps modem. Must've been around 1994. In time I upgraded to a whopping 14.4kbps modem and was able to access the web and my days on Usenet were over. Haven't ventured to that neighborhood in a long time. Surprised to learn it is still around.
Who could possibly be unaware of alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die?
"obscure data network technology" LOL!!!!
Google groups / Deja News is more useful than web search in a lot of cases.
they will spread around enough campaign cash - to get government approval to force ISPs to drop their usenet feeds.
Usenet is how I found Free Republic.
I always check usenet whenever I'm researching on line.
Those were the days.
I'm not suprised that usenet is still around. The servers are ubiquitous, and the service is darn near impossible to stop.
It's obscure, the way that NYC sewers are obscure. No one knows exactly where they are, but they still move a lot of.... stuff.
/johnny
LOL! Now you're really bringing back memories! I'm tempted to stroll google's archives and see if some of my drunken online ramblings from my college days still exist.
Its only obsecure to techno idiots like Hiawatha Bray, who is uniformly reviled for his cluelessness on the net.
Got an answer to my parents air conditioning problem on alt.hvac, found antenna ideas on rec.radio.amateur.antenna, etc.
Gave up on alt.fan.art-bell, and a number of others.
Please be VEWY, VEWY quiet about this!
It's >one< of the last of the orignal internet places you can >sorta< bask in the glow of
prisoner6
I've been NetFlixxing STtNG Season 1 and had a "Crusher" episode on in the background at the same moment I read your post.
God, I hate that little dork.
I was using Usenet when the "web browser" was still an experimental concept. Back then, the internet was pretty much just email and Usenet.
Plus, I had to FTP uphill both ways in the snow.
This just in -- an obscure data network technology called Telnet is allowing hackers everywhere to access remote computers without using a GUI! My God, what will they think of next?!?!
I loved Usenet. I loved Dejanews before it became into Google.
"Plus, I had to FTP uphill both ways in the snow."
Haha nice. They want to stop Usenet because thats where the pirate groups release their work, then it gets posted to bittorent and p2p groups. MY university doesn't allow access to alt.bin groups so i can't use it to trade illegal stuff anyway. Theres always good old bittorrent!
Usenet is alive and well and a total anarchy. These sharks don't know who they're messing with.
alt.lawyers.sue.sue.sue
Beautiful. It is nice to hear this. Sadly, my internet surfing time is quite limited these days to FR and bill-paying but those were some heady times in college when I first discovered Usenet and a whole new world opened up for me.
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