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Duke To Shut Down Usenet Server
DukeTech writes "This week marks the end of an era for one of the earliest pieces of Internet history, which got its start at Duke University more than 30 years ago. On May 20, Duke will shut down its Usenet server, which provides access to a worldwide electronic discussion network of newsgroups started in 1979 by two Duke graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis." Rantastic and other readers wrote about the shutdown of the British Usenet indexer Newzbin today; the site sank under the weight of a lawsuit and outstanding debt. Combine these stories with the recent news of Microsoft shuttering its newsgroups, along with other recent stories, and the picture does not look bright for Usenet.
Usenet was my first introduction to online porn. *sniff*
First they closer Limewire
First they closed the usenets.
When they came for my router, it was to replace it with a FTTH.
And it was good. ...
Wait... I think I fracked up that one. What were we talking about?
Sniff?
Didn't realise that Usenet pron was THAT advanced!
First rule of usenet is we dont talk about usenet.
Duke nuked their server....
back then the internet was totally free
It was? Funny, I remember my ISP wanted to be paid...
you had me at #!
Ya know, every time I hear a story like this I feel compelled to get on there and grab some free porn before my ISP decides to do away with news server too.
Damnit, I though this news item would be about Duke Nukem.
You maniacs! You slashdottised the usenets! Damn you! Gad damn you all to hell!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
This is my current pet-peeves : flat forum and phpBB are killing the art of internet discussion.
Oh, how painfully, painfully true.
I feel like I've departed the internet age of letters and found myself in the age of tweets.
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Sure, not a problem. Your answers are:
1) RTFM noob
2) To get the driver to work you have to modify the kernel flags and recompile it
3) For best performance, load the binary blob driver
You're welcome!
It's been a while since we had a Duke Nukem story on the front pa...Oh...that Duke...and they just shut it down and didn't nuke it...? Nevermind.
Are you there?
What makes you think the pr0n is noise and not signal?
The ISPs I used in the late 90s all had NNTP servers. I remember them well, all the porn a teenage nerd could handle.
I even wrote a Perl-TK program to grab the images from various binaries groups.
Then the ISP got all annoyed because I was on a single dialup session for like a week straight. Good times, good times.
Fag.
Slashdot, the new Usenet.
Don't blame the pirates. Pirates were doing ISPs a favor by using USENET. Something pirated over USENET only travels over the public internet once. Then every user of the ISP can download it on the ISPs network at no cost to the ISP. Kill USENET and those pirates go back to P2P where every download goes across the public internet at least once per user.
"Your honor, I did not facilitate massive copyright infringement, I just provided network access... Well, I guess in a sense you could say I acted as a cache... Well yes, technically every pirated file was stored on a hard disk located in my building and downloaded from there... No, I'm not responsible for it, it was just a network optimization..."