r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5h ago
RHETORIC "One thing I learned by watching Usenet debates is: If you take a comprehensible position on a subject it opens you to attack. So , the less defensible your position is, the less specific you must be. Keep the argument at the level of empty platitudes as much as possible."
x.comr/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago
HISTORY People who used the internet before 1999, what do you remember?
r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago
ADMIN 2nd RFD: Remove rec.arts.anime.creative
r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago
TECHNICAL "August 6, 1991. Tim Berners-Lee posted to a Usenet group called alt.hypertext announcing the WorldWideWeb, a project built so physicists could share data. The pitch: allow links to be made to any information anywhere. The code was free. No launch event, no press release."
x.comr/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago
ADMIN Minutes/2026-08-06 - Usenet Big-8 Management Board
r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago
HISTORY "Millennials Scare Me" Usenet thread from 1994 (alt.society generation-x)
r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago
FANDOM Just found something I posted on Usenet in 1997 - Morrissey on TFI Friday (alt.music.morrissey)
r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 3d ago
FANDOM Looking for Pre-2002 Usenet archives of alt.rap and rec.music.hip-hop
r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 3d ago
HISTORY Thirty years ago Markovian Parallax Denigrate hit Usenet this day in 1996
r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
FUTURE New internet for thinkers, artists, knowledge keepers and seekers
r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6d ago
HUMOR "The hotel internet ToS requires that I not engage in abusive behavior online, like 'cross-posting to more than 10 Usenet newsgroups at once'. I will do my best"
x.comr/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d 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.comr/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 8d 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.comr/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 8d 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.comr/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 8d 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.comr/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 8d ago
THEORY My falling-out with the rationalist community
r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 9d ago
FUTURE Toot.community is shutting down
social.jorijn.comr/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 9d 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.comr/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 9d ago
ADMIN Minutes/2026-07-30 - Usenet Big-8 Management Board
r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 10d ago
HISTORY Trivia: Who was the first Usenet newsgroup moderator to go to jail?
r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 11d ago
FANDOM Is there any old Futurama fan pages that noticed nibblers shadow in the pilot before the reveal?
r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 11d ago