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The first rule of Usenet is: you do not talk about Usenet
by LtdJorge 2y ago
The first rule of Usenet is: you do not talk about Usenet
- geor9e 2y agoif it was meant to be kept secret it probably shouldnt have been put on the AOL home portal in 1994
- spokaneplumb 2y agoPeople breaking the first rule wasn’t enough for me to crack into the scene. The weird two-paid-services thing required to use it effectively—a search service of some kind, and your actual content provider—and the jankiness of the software and sites involved were enough to get me to give up, after spending some money but making no meaningful progress toward pirating anything. I started my piracy journey on Napster. I’ve done all the other biggies. I’ve done off-the-beaten-path stuff like IRC piracy channels. Private trackers. I have a soft spot for Windowmaker and was dumb enough to run Gentoo so long that I got kinda good at the “scary” deep parts of Linux sysadmin. I can deal with fiddliness and allegedly-ugly UI. Usenet piracy defeated me.
- hnburnsy 2y agoSorry, forgot.