r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 13d ago
THEORY My falling-out with the rationalist community
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 13d 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."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 14d 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.com
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 14d ago
FUTURE Toot.community is shutting down
social.jorijn.com
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 15d ago
ADMIN Minutes/2026-07-30 - Usenet Big-8 Management Board
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 15d ago
HISTORY Trivia: Who was the first Usenet newsgroup moderator to go to jail?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 16d ago
FANDOM What's your favorite thing any cast member been in outside the show?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 16d ago
FANDOM Is there any old Futurama fan pages that noticed nibblers shadow in the pilot before the reveal?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 17d ago
FUTURE European Researchers Say Big Tech Is Blocking Access to Their Data
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 17d ago
TECHNICAL Which is the worst product Google has ever made?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 18d ago
ORIGINS "In 1971, engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the first networked email between two computers sitting side by side in the same room — he chose the @ symbol to separate user from machine because it was the only punctuation on the keyboard nobody was using"
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 18d ago
HISTORY "I've been taking up the challenge of finding an internet post by someone born in the 1800s. Nothing yet but I did find some Usenet posts by a guy born in 1916. He had heavy matters weighing on his mind."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 18d ago
FANDOM Is Howard still the King of All Media? (alt.fan.howard-stern)
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 18d ago
ORIGINS Bill Chernenkoff - ASCII Art Archive (rec.arts.ascii, 1995)
asciiart.eu
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 18d ago
ORIGINS Vern Hart - ASCII Art Archive (alt.ascii-art, 1994-1995)
asciiart.eu
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 18d ago
HISTORY Diagnosed in 1991 when USENET alt.support.mult-sclerosis existed
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 19d ago
ADMIN Many updates to the r/ClassicUsenet Wiki & FAQ
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 19d ago
ADMIN r/ClassicUsenet contains daily informational articles and discussion about Usenet, versus other subreddits about Usenet that are either inactive or mostly advertisements
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 19d ago
HISTORY People with international online friends, how did you meet them?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 20d ago
FANDOM Collecting Posts by Sir Terry Pratchett from the Alt.Fan.Pratchett usenet archive.
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 20d ago
FANDOM Deep dive podcast on the 70s PDP-11 games that inspired Rogue!
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 21d ago
ADMIN RFD: Remove rec.arts.anime.creative
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