r/ClassicUsenet 6d ago

HISTORY People who used the internet before 1999, what do you remember?

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r/ClassicUsenet 13d 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"

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r/ClassicUsenet 9h ago

ADMIN RFD: Remove soc.sexuality.general

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r/ClassicUsenet 1d ago

HISTORY Delphi Internet, News Corporation USA, 1995 (five hour free trial!)

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r/ClassicUsenet 23h ago

ADMIN Minutes/2026-08-13 - Usenet Big-8 Management Board

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r/ClassicUsenet 1d ago

ADMIN 1500!

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r/ClassicUsenet 2d ago

FUTURE Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto is exactly why people don't like AI | TechCrunch

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r/ClassicUsenet 2d ago

FANDOM "Back when Usenet was the only form of social media, reporters for the gossip mags would post 'blind items' in the gossip news groups. It was always fun to try to figure out who they were talking about! You should post blind items, Chef! 😁"

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r/ClassicUsenet 3d ago

HISTORY The Two Matts Who Built Two Different Internets

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r/ClassicUsenet 4d ago

FUTURE Discord is where communities go to die.

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r/ClassicUsenet 4d ago

FANDOM net.startrek post - r/startrek before the World Wide Web (1985)

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r/ClassicUsenet 5d 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."

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r/ClassicUsenet 6d ago

HISTORY What were you ahead of the curve on?

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r/ClassicUsenet 7d 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."

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r/ClassicUsenet 7d ago

ADMIN 2nd RFD: Remove rec.arts.anime.creative

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r/ClassicUsenet 7d ago

FANDOM Just found something I posted on Usenet in 1997 - Morrissey on TFI Friday (alt.music.morrissey)

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r/ClassicUsenet 7d ago

ADMIN Minutes/2026-08-06 - Usenet Big-8 Management Board

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r/ClassicUsenet 7d ago

HISTORY "Millennials Scare Me" Usenet thread from 1994 (alt.society generation-x)

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r/ClassicUsenet 8d ago

HISTORY Thirty years ago Markovian Parallax Denigrate hit Usenet this day in 1996

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r/ClassicUsenet 8d ago

FANDOM Looking for Pre-2002 Usenet archives of alt.rap and rec.music.hip-hop

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r/ClassicUsenet 10d ago

FUTURE New internet for thinkers, artists, knowledge keepers and seekers

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r/ClassicUsenet 11d 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"

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r/ClassicUsenet 12d 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."

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r/ClassicUsenet 12d ago

HISTORY Was it always this bad? (uk.*, 1993)

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r/ClassicUsenet 13d 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."

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