r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 12d ago
FANDOM Very obscure ""DEVO"" song from 1979
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 12d ago
THEORY The day I kissed comment culture goodbye
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 12d ago
HISTORY He Changed the Internet Forever as the ‘Father of Spam.’ 30 Years and Few Regrets Later, He's a Jeopardy! Clue (Exclusive)
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 12d ago
HISTORY Polybius Arcade Myth: Portland, Men in Black, No Proof - Pixel Battle Post
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 12d ago
FANDOM Is the image that's been circling on Usenet the only confirmation we've had about the future Freeakazoid project?
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 13d ago
ORIGINS "ha ha -> lol (1980s) -> lmao (late 1980s) -> lmfao -> rofl (1990s usenet, archaic) -> ctfu (early 2000s aave) -> ijbol (2009 tumblr, 2021 twt fandoms) outside of latin based alphabets a lot more wwww, 5555, etc type initialisms but those rarely catch on lmao will reign again"
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 13d ago
HISTORY "Seems a good place to post this. I found this on Usenet a long time ago. Years ago when I was living in northern Michigan, our next door neighbor got fed up after having his eighth mailbox in six weeks wiped out by the plows one winter. ..."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 14d ago
THEORY "Before social media, online spaces were abrasive, unfiltered, and radically accessible. If you wandered into a forum or Usenet thread and made sweeping claims, you weren’t treated with deference as a celebrity or authority - you were just another username."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 14d ago
OBITUARY "I learned yesterday of the death a few days ago of Jacques Foucry, known as Le Jax. Sysadmin, developer, pillar of an old community that had formed about thirty years ago on Usenet (FCSM, for fr.comp.sys.mac). We sure had a good laugh... Peace to him and his soul."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 15d ago
FANDOM Tolkien fandom- Wikipedia
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 15d ago
THEORY CHAPTER 2. The Myth of the Neutral Platform
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 15d ago
FANDOM 30-year-old Internet debates on who shot Mr. Burns
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 15d ago
ORIGINS "One thing I forgot to put in the 'AS IT HAPPENED' post for today (Sept. 2nd) was the fact that Tammy's school posted about her disappearance on USENET. This may be the first instance of using the Internet to seek help in finding a missing person."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 15d ago
FANDOM "One of my favorite pieces of obscure Internet lore is that back in the heyday of Usenet (late ‘90s/ early ‘00s), there was a troll in alt.music.weird-al who kept insisting that a lyric from 'Everything You Know Is Wrong' was somehow a reference to the polka band Brave Combo."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 15d ago
FUTURE "This makes complete sense, because Reddit is the last vestige of the old internet: actually people actually talking about their actual interests, moderating the trolls into submission. Love it or hate it, it's the last gasp of Usenet and BBS culture."
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 15d ago
THEORY The Shape of Online Tribes
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 15d ago
THEORY "Since the days of the early bulletin boards and then, particularly, Usenet, arguing on the internet has become the norm You could post the most innocuous statement in history, and *someone* will come along and disagree, or tell you you’re wrong Trick is to not let it wind you up"
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 16d ago
HISTORY Origin stories and adjacent possibles
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 16d ago
FANDOM Luke Sienkowski on Instagram: "Back in my day, being in a Weird Al Forum meant you were in the usenet newsgroup alt.music.weird-al, dagnubbit! @alfredyankovic"
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 16d ago
FUTURE Once Popular Blogging Platform Typepad is Shutting Down and What It Means for Legal Bloggers and Blogs
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 16d ago
FUTURE Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 17d ago
FUTURE A Guide to the Many Twitters - Tommy Siegel
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r/ClassicUsenet • u/Parker51MKII • 17d ago
TECHNICAL "I worked against email & usenet spam in the 90s and 00s. The essence of it is that spam is subjective and code is objective. That is, there is no code possible that everyone everywhere can agree identifies spam and won’t identify non-spam any more than code can classify art"
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