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So I was wondering if any of you read usenet newsgroups now and then. :)

Basically, I've been doing this a lot recently (reading though r.g.r.n is huge fun) and I was amazed at the activity there. Being a system older than the WWW, I expected it to be quite dead now.
 
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I've never heard of it. What is a Usenet?
 
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Majestic said:
I've never heard of it. What is a Usenet?
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The Usenet is something like a gigantic world-wide distributed forum-email hybrid that was invented 1980, several years before the WWW. It contains many groups and subgroups where people discuss stuff. It's the dinosaur of internet discussion, and some parts of it are virtually dead today. Still, there are some quite active communities, and google including usenet in their account system certainly revived it in some way (google groups is awesome).
I actually go there mainly because of the dev communities.:oops:
 
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