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Always love seeing stories from my formative years on the Internet. All of these little private, intimate moments on IRC and freenets and talkers and muds fore
by jcims 7y ago
Always love seeing stories from my formative years on the Internet. All of these little private, intimate moments on IRC and freenets and talkers and muds forever lost but in the minds of those that were there. Thanks for sharing.
- HeyLaughingBoy 7y agoSo do I. One of my pleasures was finding someone whose Usenet post from 1995 I had saved on a computer and then backed up repeatedly over the years. The post was about a machine he built to automate letting his cat out and I recalled it instantly (even knew the filename I had it saved to) because his recounting of what happened was so hilarious. I sent him the file and the really weird thing was he had no recollection of the events. He was sure it was something he would have done, but really couldn't remember. I'm actually surprised that I've only come across one other person I "knew" from Usenet here on HN.
- CydeWeys 7y agoI'm still using the same username. Anyone who frequented, say, talk.origins a decade and a half ago, might recognize me.
- visiblink 7y agoI still hang out on usenet. comp.misc has a great little community -- and most of the discussion revolves around stories that are also found in places like HN, Slashdot, Soylent News, etc.
- jcims 7y agoHow are you getting there? Google Groups or something else?
- visiblink 7y agoYou can register with eternal-september.org for a free usenet account. Then you can set up Thunderbird, Claws Mail or another email app (even slrn or alpine on the linux command line) to read and respond to newsgroups.
- EGreg 7y agoAnyone remember flipcode and gamasutra?