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The twitter of its time (minus Elon)!

• mathgeek 3y ago
  Not particularly. The masses were neither on nor aware of Usenet and thus it never had the cultural real-time impact on society that modern popular services do. It was mostly “early” tech folks and academics chatting with each other.
  • macintux 3y ago
    There were glimmers. The Babylon 5 group had an impact on both the audience and the show itself, for example, with JMS actively participating.
• mjmsmith 3y ago
  Plus federation. Like Algol, an improvement on its successors.
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• caf 3y ago
  TINC
• layer8 3y ago
  More like the Reddit of its time.
  • antod 3y ago
    I often think of it the other way round, ie Reddit is the usenet of its time.
• anthk 3y ago
  More like Slashdot.
• NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
  > The twitter of its time (minus Elon)! No, but we had B1FF D00DZ1!!1
  • macintux 3y ago
    And Serdar Argic.
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