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Someone said of programming languages that Algol 60 was so great that it improved not only on its predecessors, but also on its successors. I would say the sam
by throwaway81523 3y ago
Someone said of programming languages that Algol 60 was so great that it improved not only on its predecessors, but also on its successors. I would say the same of Usenet when it comes to Reddit-like systems. In this day and age it could use a few updates but whenever I think of implementing forums, I always come back to Usenet and NNTP as the basic mechanism.
- floren 3y agoI'm delving back into Usenet again after a couple years and yeah, it really is good. Spam seems to be less of a problem every time I look in. Just find some groups that match your interests and if there's not much traffic, well, post! Just post. I'm on alt.ham-radio and some sub-groups, comp.misc, rec.crafts.brewing, rec.music.folk (pretty active!), alt.folklore.computers, and others. I'm running my own news server now, which is easier than you'd think. Even if you don't run your own server (there's no real reason to) there are plenty of free public servers out there.