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I had a brief occasion to use NNTP twelve or thirteen years ago, where my university was still using NNTP for course discussion boards. It was awesome. You had
by endgame 6y ago
I had a brief occasion to use NNTP twelve or thirteen years ago, where my university was still using NNTP for course discussion boards.
It was awesome. You had a good choice of clients to read and post (instead of a half-baked webapp), and everything was incredibly snappy.
We have fallen so far. There's no money in building protocols and money in apps, so people build apps instead.
- kalleboo 6y agoI still miss the thread visualization that MacSOUP used. Much easier to follow up on new posts in threads than the modern inline/indent format used by sites like HN and Reddit. https://faqintosh.com/risorse/common/ecg/204/it/msgwin.png https://faqintosh.com/risorse/common/ecg/204/it/msgwin.png