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Darius Kazemi

Came across this article about an early online gay community founded 40 years ago

"The soc.motss name was purposely sort of opaque so as to not raise homophobic admins' eyebrows."

enervatron.blogspot.com/2023/0

8 Aug 2023 at 0:09 | Open on friend.camp
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Jed Davis

@darius A while back I dug into the origins, IIRC I found an archive of Usenet control messages or something like that, and it looked like net.motss (as it was before the Great Renaming) had to be newgroup'ed twice because a rogue admin deleted it after the first one.

Unfortunately I don't think I had the presence of mind to save info on that for future reference.

8 Aug 2023 at 3:13 | Open on sfba.social
Sean Eric Fagan

@darius I remember that; I had the name explained to me by my boss at the time. (Dave, I think?)

8 Aug 2023 at 13:22 | Open on mastodon.cloud
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