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Reply To: Usenet and newsgroups

October 25, 2019 at 3:39 pm #1450449

blinky465

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Newsgroups were great – set your reader to download either just headers or body content (no attachments), dial-up, download, disconnect, read at leisure. Aaaah, those were the days. When “going online” was more about managing your phone bill than just browsing and downloading stuff!

A few years ago I signed up for a year with UseNext – blisteringly fast download speeds but the newsgroups seemed mostly geared towards sharing tv shows and movies (albeit split over multiple zip files). Actually trying to find useful information on newsgroups isn’t like it was in the early ninties any more (I think the last time I used newsgroups for info was looking for a walkthrough for Day Of The Tentacle as there was something about scaring a cat that I just had no idea about).