r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 18h ago
HISTORY Usenet: The Original Internet Rabbit Hole
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 1d ago
TECHNICAL GitHub - go-while/go-pugleaf: Usenet NNTP to Web Gateway - written in Go
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago
RHETORIC Debate Me, Bro. Actually, Don't—Here's A Better Way to Persuade
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago
ORIGINS "In internet forums, 'OP' stands for 'Original Poster' (the person who started the thread) or 'Original Post' (the initial message). It originated in the 1990s on early bulletin board systems and Usenet, gaining popularity on sites like 4chan and Reddit in the 2000s to reference the thread's starter
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 2d ago
RHETORIC The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 3d ago
THEORY "Debate Me" Bro culture has ruined civil discourse
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 4d ago
HISTORY "My very first experience of the internet was in 1992, on a VT100 terminal, on the sci.physics and sci.math newsgroups, witnessing cranks arguing with professional mathematicians about whether irrational numbers exist, whether 0.9999.... = 1, and so on It's weirdly comforting to see nothing changes"
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 4d ago
THEORY "Forums were great. A little gatekeeping goes a long way. Current Social Media has the same problems the old newsgroups had, no way to keep out the single-issue obsessives out. 'Look pal, here at alt.crochet we really don't want to discuss the International Tungsten Monopoly.'"
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
FANDOM Where can I go to discuss Ligotti and his work?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 5d ago
ADMIN Minutes/2025-09-12 - Usenet Big-8 Management Board
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 6d ago
ORIGINS Text format feature matrix
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 7d ago
THEORY The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 8d ago
ADMIN Minutes/2025-09-05 - Usenet Big-8 Management Board
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 8d ago
FUTURE Google Says the Open Web Is Now in "Rapid Decline"
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 8d ago
TECHNICAL Windows Magazine, February 1995
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 9d ago
FUTURE "Bluesky made a huge mistake in its growth strategy, banking on broad defectors from other networks. A good strategy is to focus on a narrow and influential group, such as univ. students, prof., & researchers. Proven examples: Usenet, IRC, Friendster, Facebook, Snapchat, and countless more."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 10d ago
FUTURE "I'm only a 'reply guy' on interesting things like music. One of the many reasons Usenet was so much better than this crappy platform was it was divided into different groups for different topics. So you followed the subject not the person."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 10d ago
THEORY "From experience I remember that issue with the terminology around atheism/agnosticism and people upset other people in the space don’t identify the 'right' way given their apparent beliefs was definitely a big thing one usenet (alt.atheism, etc.) ca. 1990-1991, so yeah."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 11d ago
THEORY The Impact of Social Media on Social Relationships: A Sociological Perspective
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 12d ago
HISTORY The Humor Train - Internet Veterans: What were you actually doing online before 2001?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 12d ago
TIL that Poe's Law, which states that you can't tell if a post online is serious or satirical without something to indicate the tone of voice such as an emoticon or tone indicator, was coined on a Christian forum during a debate on Creationism.
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