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I couldn't agree more; In the 90s, my main internet usage was lurking various news groups. Everything that I wanted was on usenet. I could get answers to progra
by mmcgaha 7y ago
I couldn't agree more; In the 90s, my main internet usage was lurking various news groups. Everything that I wanted was on usenet. I could get answers to programming questions, tech support, source code, software, quality images, and plenty of reading material. I am not sure when my net habits changed, but I was still setting up leafnode as late as 2003.
- vascocosta 7y agoIndeed. I forgot to mention what you just did. Usenet, despite its distributed/federated technical nature, which made the network extremely resilient, centralised the way we searched for information on all sort of different topics. There was no need to use dozens of different protocols or visit different websites. I remember I had my newsgroups grouped by topic like programming, operating systems, science, sports and so on.