R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 625
CorinneI writes "In a way inconceivable in today's marketplace, Usenet was where people once went to talk — in days before the profit-centric Internet we have today. The series of bulletin boards called 'newsgroups' shared by thousands of computers, which traded new messages several times a day, is now a thing of the past."
Usenet is dead... (Score:5, Funny)
It's about time. (Score:5, Funny)
alt.terrible.news.horrify.cringe.wail (Score:5, Funny)
alt.beloved.usenet.gone?.withered?.dead?
alt.black.day.is.is.ever-shall-be
alt.thoughtful.pause.pause.pause.pause
alt.brief.check.make.perform.check
alt.noble.usenet.remains!.lives!.cheers!
alt.brave.usenet.!surrenders.!bows.!gone!
alt.silly.blog.!informs.!researches.!educates
alt.dumb.blogger.drools.mashes-keys-at-random.drools
alt.credulous.slashdot.reports.dramatises.alarms
alt.trusty."alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb".remains.endures.twinkles
Article summary (Score:5, Funny)
"Before the Eternal September, but after the Great Renaming, I learned about sex on Usenet."
No need to read any further...
Re:this was never about porn (Score:5, Funny)
Somebody's got to say it (Score:5, Funny)
So what was your favorite newsgroup name? (Score:5, Funny)
Coz your post is dead accurate about the whole usenet sense of humor.
I loved:
alt.fan.tonya-harding.whack.whack.whack
alt.sex.bestiality.barney.die.die.die
and all the many alt.*.whilst.wearing.rubber.knickers groups.
Not that I ever *read* any of them, but it made my heart warm knowing they existed.
Re:So what was your favorite newsgroup name? (Score:5, Funny)
alt.barney.die.die.die
alt.party-of-five.puke.puke.puke
alt.impeach.bush
Re:WHAT? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:yellow journalism at it's worst (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I didn't get on USENET until 1995 (Score:3, Funny)
It was a typo... (Score:3, Funny)
He misspelled ditzy and calamitous.
Re:this was never about porn (Score:5, Funny)
The ends justify the means. Thank you, Mr. Cuomo.
Re:2 points (Score:2, Funny)
Outlawing drugs has worked so well, whatever do you mean?
Re:WHAT? (Score:2, Funny)
ME 2!!
Re:WHAT? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm...Giganews and other services are still the (Score:3, Funny)
>First top-post! [wikipedia.org] Usenet started
>dying for me when that became a crime worthy of
>vituperation.
Response from alt.fan.monty-python (Score:5, Funny)
> Just because mainstream internet providers are dropping it doesn't mean it is dying. Usenet is immortal,
> like Dracula, it will never die.
SPAM: [after SPAM's cut off both of the UseNet's arms] Look, you stupid Bastard. You've got no arms left. ....
UseNet: Yes I have.
SPAM: *Look*!
UseNet: It's just a flesh wound.
SPAM: Look, I'll have your leg. [Recieves a very sharp kick] Right! [Chops off one of the UseNet's legs]
UseNet: Right! I'll do you for that!
SPAM: You'll what?
UseNet: Come here!
SPAM: What are you going to do, bleed on me?!
UseNet: I'm invincible!
SPAM: You're a looney.
UseNet: The UseNet always triumphs! Have at you! Come on then. [Hopping on one leg towards SPAM]
[SPAM chops his other leg off, leaving his body upright on the ground.]
UseNet: Alright, we'll call it a draw.
SPAM: Come, Patsy!
UseNet: Oh, oh I see. Running away, eh?! You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!!
[Fade to black.]
Netcraft: Bring out yer dead. [Hits gong]
Mass Media: Here's one.
Dead UseNet: I'm not dead!
Netcraft: What?
Mass Media: Nothing. Here's your ninepence.
Dead UseNet: I'm not dead!
Netcraft: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Mass Media: Yes he is.
Dead UseNet: I'm not!
Netcraft: He isn't!
Mass Media: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
Dead UseNet: I'm getting betta!
Mass Media: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Netcraft: I can't take 'im like that! It's against regulation!
Dead UseNet: I don't want to go on the cart!
Mass Media: Oh, don't be such a baby!
Netcraft: I can't take him.
Dead UseNet: I feel fine!
[Mass Media knocks UseNet dead]
won't work (Score:3, Funny)
if the government is more precise in what they shut down (ie, if they shut down just alt.binaries)
This will only kill the binary pron, leading to a new rebirth of ASCII pron!
Please stop posting ! (Score:3, Funny)
Please can you all stop posting to this thread: have you forgotten the first and second rules ?
The first two rules of USENET (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Google Groups (Score:5, Funny)
Well I'm sure there's something in the alt.* tree for you!
Re:Usenet is dead... (Score:1, Funny)
I just figured we finally made it to October!
Really? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm...Giganews and other services are still the (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Usenet is dead... (Score:5, Funny)
ME TOO!
the web is dead (Score:5, Funny)
It seems like more and more people are making more and more outrageous predictions & claims.
Sometime in the late 90s, Wired ran a cover story that contained an assertion that "the Web is dead."
That's about when I canceled my subscription.
Re:Hmm...Giganews and other services are still the (Score:4, Funny)
A metaphor is a cool breeze on a hot summer day.
Or is that a cliche?
Re:Google Groups (Score:3, Funny)
I see... what's the URL for using Gnus through my Web browser again?
Re:Google Groups (Score:2, Funny)
Long live Gnus.
I'd use gnus, except I don't have enough hard drive space to install emacs.
Re:Hmm...Giganews and other services are still the (Score:4, Funny)
They still have pretty good fetish porn. Chicks in rubber and PVC.
And here I thought techno chicken [youtube.com] was weird!
Re:Google Groups (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dark Usenet? (Score:5, Funny)
I was a collaborative effort.
Tell your mom I said hi.
Re:Hmm...Giganews and other services are still the (Score:4, Funny)
Predictions are dead!
Re:It's about time. (Score:3, Funny)