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Usenet With a 30 Year Lag

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the deja-what-now dept.

joey writes "The early A-News days of Usenet are being played out on olduse.net in realtime with a 30 year time delay. You can catch up on what rms and Postel are doing, Keep informed of the latest prices in disk drives ($75000 per gigabyte), and more. Available through a web-based teletype or NNTP. I plan to run the service for the next ten years, until 1991."

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  1. Re:September '92 by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually it was 199*3* when AOL added Usenet to its service, and thus began the never-ending influx of newbies.

    I started posting on Usenet back in 1988 using local BBS feeds. The SYSop would download the messages at midnight, and his users would reply to the posts, and then wait a full day to see the answer.

    Jeez, I get annoyed when the mobile connection on my smartphone doesn't work for 15 minutes. That really makes you appreciate how hyper-connected we are now.

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