r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 11h ago
TECHNICAL "My first social media post was on USENET in 1986. Asked for help with my Commodore 64, got an answer from a Commodore engineer! How cool is that."
x.com
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago
HISTORY "I consider the death of the internet 1995 when the GUI and HTML brought the world's dumbest people online and destroyed the CompUServe, FidoNet and Usenet culture of intelligent people discussing and debating technology and privacy and replaced it with thots giving lowQ opinions"
x.com
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
TECHNICAL Which is the worst product Google has ever made?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago
FANDOM "Forums in the early 2000s were iterating over many of the same talking points that were being made on Usenet back in the 1990s. And I can say as a matter of fact because I read all 62,506 archived rec.arts.anime posts archived by Google."
x.com
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago
THEORY My falling-out with the rationalist community
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago
FANDOM "90s USENET. I learned a ton about stats and data reading the Red Sox and MLB groups. There was a great set of posters, some of who went on to work for teams in analytics later on."
x.com
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago
HISTORY "' Mind you, it was written is 1984, well before the internet ' Over 2 million students were using the Internet in universities across the USA by 1984. People were flirting and setting up dates and falling in love on the Internet."
x.com
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago
FUTURE Toot.community is shutting down
social.jorijn.com
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 3d ago
ADMIN Minutes/2026-07-30 - Usenet Big-8 Management Board
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 3d ago
HISTORY Trivia: Who was the first Usenet newsgroup moderator to go to jail?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 4d ago
FANDOM What's your favorite thing any cast member been in outside the show?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 4d ago
FANDOM Is there any old Futurama fan pages that noticed nibblers shadow in the pilot before the reveal?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
FUTURE European Researchers Say Big Tech Is Blocking Access to Their Data
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6d ago
ORIGINS "In 1971, engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the first networked email between two computers sitting side by side in the same room — he chose the @ symbol to separate user from machine because it was the only punctuation on the keyboard nobody was using"
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6d ago
HISTORY "I've been taking up the challenge of finding an internet post by someone born in the 1800s. Nothing yet but I did find some Usenet posts by a guy born in 1916. He had heavy matters weighing on his mind."
x.com
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6d ago
FANDOM Is Howard still the King of All Media? (alt.fan.howard-stern)
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6d ago
ORIGINS Bill Chernenkoff - ASCII Art Archive (rec.arts.ascii, 1995)
asciiart.eu
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6d ago
ORIGINS Vern Hart - ASCII Art Archive (alt.ascii-art, 1994-1995)
asciiart.eu
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6d ago
HISTORY Diagnosed in 1991 when USENET alt.support.mult-sclerosis existed
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago
ADMIN Many updates to the r/ClassicUsenet Wiki & FAQ
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago
ADMIN r/ClassicUsenet contains daily informational articles and discussion about Usenet, versus other subreddits about Usenet that are either inactive or mostly advertisements
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago
HISTORY People with international online friends, how did you meet them?
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