Gregory's Serverthere's probably some insane arsehole with nostalgia for the bang path era of Usenet https://www.complete.org/usenet-over-nncp/
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 @cstross @davidgerard Also, you really appreciate your pirated MP3s/scanned Playboy centrefolds if you have to wait a few hours for them to download (at night, when your parents aren’t using the landline).  You haven’t lived until you’ve waited to download a nude (non-animated) gif only to view it on an Apple IIc’s green monochrome display. |
@davidgerard Forget NNTP, I'm nostalgic for uucp over V.22bis modems these days! No room for large GIFs, never mind video. Web hadn't been invented yet. No advertising, no fucking new media oligarchs pwning the internet, just raw ASCII text files.