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Usenet was where conversations took place before social media came about.

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Remembering Usenet - The OG Social Network that Existed Even Before the World Wide Web

Before Facebook, before MySpace and even before the Word Wide Web, there existed Usenet. From LOL to Linux, we owe a lot to Usenet.
Bill Dyer (It's FOSS)
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Chris Lee
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sci.chem was constantly spammed by a guy who called himself Archimedes Plutonium.

We did get some good stuff published, for example by transmitting the sort of practical lab lore that never got published in the regular literature.

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daydrinking
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it’s still being used. I actually used it last year just to mess around, but it’s pretty dead and it’s very clearly “unsafe” now. But #irc is still pretty active surprisingly. Not crazy busy though, since #freenode bit the bullet.
#irc #freenode

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