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Usenet in the Internet early days when the net was not filled with spam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet IRC before
by acd 6y ago
Usenet in the Internet early days when the net was not filled with spam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
IRC before Slack took off. IRC a standardized chat protocol, there is not chat islands.
Gopher, the text version of meta browsable Internet before World wide web. You could navigate gopher with just a keyboard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
BBS Bulletin Board systems there were local computer communities formed around them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
- h2odragon 6y agoUsenet was great. A distributed database with varied and robust communications links and sophisticated replication and de-duplication features; long before anyone thought to see it that way. Persistent compression dictionaries, indexes, and query passing could have happened too.
- arthureroberer 6y agogopher is not dead and it has evolved into the gemini protocol https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ BBS are alive and well in the communities of the tildeverse https://tildeverse.org/ https://tildeverse.org/
- anthk 6y agoMore like evolved, the Pubnix/SDF guys took it and it created something similar but privacy being mandatory with SSL. On BBS', ssh/telnet synchro.net or gopher cvs.synchro.net. People is alive and posting well. Ditto with usenet.
- zzo38computer 6y agoThey are all still exist, although not used as much as it should be in my opinion. There is Usenet spam today, although in my experience, most of it comes from Google Groups (although there are good messages from Google Groups too); I have not seen spam coming from other servers (there probably used to be a lot more from other servers, I suppose).