Gregory's Server@tchambers *shudder* usenet
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@stephen @Tedspence @tchambers For me it was Usenet and IRC Dalnet. Good times. Good times.  I think it is really fascinating the lessons learned from those past federated and open social efforts. @tchambers @Az_ @Tedspence and equally interesting all the lessons we failed to learn in the rush to webify everything. :/ @Tedspence @tchambers I used Usenet in the 80s and early 90s and it was great, some of my earliest online communities. But I never had to *run* it; I was just a participant. (Also watched the takedown of what I understood to be the very first Usenet spammers; the community rallied.)  I remember downloading these long conversations from a BBS and spending hours reading @wtwagg @cellio @Tedspence @tchambers even better, printing them out on dot matrix so you can read them at school. @erikreadonly @cellio @Tedspence @tchambers Oh no. I was reading them on my Amiga 500 and this was a BBS in a college town and was the first place I was able to read conversations from the Internet. @wtwagg @erikreadonly @Tedspence @tchambers first access for me was the SF-lovers mailing list on the ARPANet (via a relay; students didn't have direct net access), read on the university's mainframe. From there, Usenet. Didn't own my own computer then, so no BBSs and no place to save files. If I wanted to keep something I printed it. I have a binder of printed email from my now-spouse, but that didn't happen until a lot later. |
@Tedspence @tchambers I miss the days of Usenet in the 90s. I made a lot of good friends back then.