Here's a pretty good eulogy for the Usenet, from LWN in... 2005
Oh! Let's see what was popular in the Usenet!
alt.fan.*
aaron-carter
addams.family
adolf.hitler 🤨
austin-powers
bill-gates
bloodhound-gang
callista-flockhart
chocobo
courteney-cox
david-duchovny
dragonlance
dune
gillian-anderson
hello-kitty
jackques-chirac
jennifer-connely
jim-carrey
kevin-mitnick
lara-croft
lion-king.scar 😂
lucy-lawless
ninja-turtles
nutella
pam-anderson
power-rangers
pratchett
princess-diana
... wait what? STOP
A quick Google search indicates that apparently the Fred guy was active in the Usenet around 2005 and contributed to many flames. So maybe he made a few enemies? Or just one enemy with a lot of free time?
Remember, kids: don't get into useless arguments on the internet, you never know if the other person is a nutjob
aaaand with
alt.zzzz.fred-[redacted]-is-a-piece-of-shit
we finish reviewing the alt.* hierarchy!
We're now at 22038/66520 (33%)
Let's continue...
sac.* is flooded with our rush-limbaugh fans for some reason
I had to search what sac.* meant, it seems to be Sacramento.
Here's a handy list of hierarchies: http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/
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Continue reading here: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@cfenollosa/103471732465361915
@cfenollosa I tried to get usenet to work on SDF but couldn't figure it out. I should give it another go.
@junkman pretty straigtforward with slrn, connect to news.sdf.org with your username and password and that's it!
@cfenollosa
I think I've actually used rec.arts.anime in the past decade sometime.
The amount of commercial hierarches like borland.*, 3dfx.*, adobe.*, microsoft.* and others make me think that providing customre support in "social networks" is not new!
What a better place to centralize all support requests than a public forum that the support team monitors regularly?