I started using Usenet to discuss SciFi stuff in the mid 90s. A couple of years ago when Comcast dropped their free access, started paying for Giganews access. But now with this forum, Facebook and other available forums, find myself posting and reading Usenet much less frequently so this week dropped it.
Anyone here still frequent NGs? Believe they have a future, etc.?
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High Lord Tolkien
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I loved usenet.
I'm too cheap to pay for it though.
When comcast dropped it i lost it.
I don't really miss it though, I can get everything i got off it somewhere else.
I'm too cheap to pay for it though.
When comcast dropped it i lost it.
I don't really miss it though, I can get everything i got off it somewhere else.
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I too employed usenet newsgroups to both share and obtain information and data but was a forced to abandon it for other avenues thanks to the costs involved.
However even if usenet access was once again free to use I probably wouldn't return. I do have fond memories of "the good old days" which also include the use of a 56k modem and a Pentium II processor.
However even if usenet access was once again free to use I probably wouldn't return. I do have fond memories of "the good old days" which also include the use of a 56k modem and a Pentium II processor.
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Hashi Lebwohl
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Wow. I don't think I have been on any usenet boards since...1992, back when I also used to MUD.
Boards like this became the future of usenet, which now has no future and will disappear soon. I don't know what will take the place of forums like this. I would say that actual online chatting--streaming live audio/video--would take its place but that is no different than actually talking to people in an offline sense.
Boards like this became the future of usenet, which now has no future and will disappear soon. I don't know what will take the place of forums like this. I would say that actual online chatting--streaming live audio/video--would take its place but that is no different than actually talking to people in an offline sense.
The Tank is gone and now so am I.
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Though I don't yet see any impact I am concerned that services like Facebook will indeed spell the demise of Kevinswatch.Hashi Lebwohl wrote:Wow. I don't think I have been on any usenet boards since...1992, back when I also used to MUD.
Boards like this became the future of usenet, which now has no future and will disappear soon. I don't know what will take the place of forums like this. I would say that actual online chatting--streaming live audio/video--would take its place but that is no different than actually talking to people in an offline sense.
Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow but...
"If you can't tell the difference, what difference does it make?"
"There is tic and toc in atomic" - Neil Peart