zeruch,
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"#USENET, or NetNews, is a text-only social discussions forum, or rather a set of a great many forums, called "newsgroups," carried by multiple servers around the world. Although the original developers closed down their instance in 2010, that was just one server out of hundreds, and many are still running just fine. It never went away – it's still alive, you can get on it for free, and there is a choice of client apps for most OSes to help you navigate."

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/

nicholas_saunders,

@zeruch ah, good ol

zeruch,
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@nicholas_saunders sometimes I really do miss Usenet and IRC to most everything in common use today

ChrisWere,
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@zeruch I honestly don't know why we don't use IRC more, there are so many benefits to it over other platforms.

zeruch,
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@ChrisWere it's still a PITA to manage, and most options out there are security nightmares IIRC.

ChrisWere,
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@zeruch Interesting, I'm a little surprised at that. I thought it would have been relatively simple compared with modern systems.

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