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The best of sci.space.*
- InclinedPlane 16y agoThis is not quite a perfect "best of", it's extremely biased toward a few authors. But those authors (Henry Spencer, George Herbert, Paul F. Dietz, a few others) have an exceptional track record so the result is still an amazingly high quality collection of posts. I really miss usenet, there was a time when it existed in a sweet-spot that fostered some quite excellent discussion. I believe HN is the closest analogue in the modern day but it's a pale shadow of usenet at its best, in my opinion.
- arethuza 16y agoI have very vivid memories of two particular usenet posts: - Reading about a thing called "Mosaic" on alt.hypertext in early '93 when I was actually tasked with finding a hypertext browser for the project I was on. I remember thinking "Sounds cool, but why would I want to load documents over a network?" - In '95 reading a post about a project called "Oak" at Sun that involved a guy that I vaguely knew, sending a begging email to Sun got me a very early copy of Java
- aperiodic 16y agoThis makes me very sad that I am too young to have experienced the glory days of usenet.