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For those who weren't around, Usenet was built on uucp in the early 80s. As messages were store and forward you had to wait a good while for your messages to pr
by anexprogrammer 10y ago
For those who weren't around, Usenet was built on uucp in the early 80s. As messages were store and forward you had to wait a good while for your messages to propagate - many servers only connected daily! Oh, and better set cron to dial in often as messages didn't stay in the spool too long!
Usenet back then was spam free and you could usually end up talking to the creators of whatever you're discussing. I rather miss it.
Quite a few tech companies used private newsgroups for support, so you'd dial into those separately. As they were often techie to techie they worked rather well.
I first came across Usenet and uucp via the Amiga Developer programme. Amicron and uucp overnight all seemed a bit magic back in 87 compared to dialing into non-networked BBS's to browse, very, very slowly!
- lettergram 10y ago> Usenet back then was spam free and you could usually end up talking to the creators of whatever you're discussing. I rather miss it. I still use usenet! It's not quite what it used to be, but you should check it out.
- neves 10y agoCan you still access it though Google? They've bought DejaVú!
- hh2222 10y agoYes, you can still access newsgroups through Google, just search for your favorite group, e.g. comp.lang.lisp.
- tonyarkles 10y agoOr eternal-september. Free accounts, although you don't get access to the binaries groups I don't think. I mostly use it for comp.risks, comp.arch.embedded, and some other things like that.
- JetSpiegel 10y agoAoie is another service still around, and is free without accounts.
- ionwake 10y agoor you could use the site I built that reads HN/reddit/slashdot and any newsgroup you wish on a webpage. Its free if a little buggy - www.sagebump.com you need the www