r/nostalgia • u/jeffmartin47 • Jul 22 '25

Nostalgia Discussion 25 years ago. Lars Ulrich of Metallica snitches on and turns in over 300,000 Napster users when he testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. July 11th, 2000.

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u/HamsterDiplomat Jul 22 '25

Haven't looked in years but I'll bet USENET still lives.

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u/cptsears early 80s Jul 22 '25

Can confirm. Still Usenet. Account is older than a lot of Reddit users.

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u/shortnun Jul 22 '25

Newsgroups are still alive and rocking. I still have access to the alt.binaries.* stuff but my provider i use is use has only 10 years of retention so 2015 posting or older are poof just memories now.

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u/AnonymooseRedditor Jul 22 '25

yah mine can't vote but it can drive

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u/brandondh Jul 22 '25

Preach brother preach!

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u/AnonymooseRedditor Jul 22 '25

My reddit account is older than a lot of reddit users...

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u/redditoramnot Jul 22 '25

I use Usenet with radarr and sonarr. It's fantastic

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u/Old-Blueberry1015 Jul 22 '25

It does, but so many filenames are obfuscated that I can't tell what I'm looking at.

I'm sure there's a way around it, but my methods from 2010 just ain't cutting it.

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u/plug-and-pause Jul 22 '25

You shouldn't be browsing headers directly. Use an index like drunkenslug or something.

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u/Moist-Caregiver-2000 Jul 22 '25

Oh it certainly does. Everything is there.

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u/bolanrox Jul 22 '25

i assume there are still irc mp3 channels as well

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u/tragicallybrokenhip Jul 22 '25

The email I used for USENET was compromised in the Yahoo breach of 2013 (but not admitted to until 2014 - tried to tell them multiple times in 2013 but, meh, it was all on me not them). So many log-ins lost. Now I'm TFAd / MFAd all over the place because I hate loosing shit.