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I really miss USENET of the good ol' days (pre-AOL escaping its garden) .. it was one of the most vivid and energising resources on the Internet. I guess its s
by mmjaa 10y ago
I really miss USENET of the good ol' days (pre-AOL escaping its garden) .. it was one of the most vivid and energising resources on the Internet. I guess its still out there, ticking away, but I haven't personally fired up an nntp reader in years.
I would, though, if there were to be some sort of USENET revival. Actually I guess there is no reason not to .. but last time I checked, it seemed pretty dead.
These days, sites like HN and reddit seem to fill the need - at least, its possible to get a similar vibe. But I wonder if there will ever be a case for the revival of the whole nntp distribution mechanism - or if its more feasible to use the same set of technologies for lesser, more local, kinds of content distribution.
- WalterBright 10y agoThe D language uses NNTP based forums: http://forum.dlang.org/ http://forum.dlang.org/ What you're seeing there is a web interface to NNTP. You can also use any newsreader to participate in the forums. (I usually use Thunderbird.)
- swiley 10y agoPOVray does this too, but it's not part of UUnet, just a self hosted nttp group.
- giancarlostoro 10y agoVibe.d as well: http://forum.rejectedsoftware.com/ http://forum.rejectedsoftware.com/ The code is also available. I always wished more forums could do this. They're not really posting on usenet, just hosting their own servers basically. Sadly not a lot of new options for NNTP clients either. Usenet is one of my favorite techs next to IRC. Though I understand IRC more than Usenet.
- WalterBright 10y agoIt's just hard to beat NNTP as a reliable, efficient protocol. It's also amenable to this: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/index.html http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/index.ht... Which is a read-only version of the messages that I wrote a simple program to generate from the NNTP database.