mirrorbird (20:38:28)
cron jobs ahoy!

mirrorbird (20:38:21)
...fucking bizarre and amazing pieces of comp sci engineering i have seen.

mirrorbird (20:38:09)
Gasman (yes, demoscene Gasman) actually coded an entire back-and-forth system that integrated the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup with the zx spectrum web forum, which i still think is one of the most

mirrorbird (20:37:19)
my ISP dropped usenet around 2005 or so i think? i got an acct on Eternal-September.org but most people were fleeing to forums, i didn't keep it very long. the phpBB shit has had a long life

zoi (20:37:15)
do you know the difference between curtains and toilet paper?

Rapture (20:37:08)
usenet is emaillike? ahoki

mirrorbird (20:36:39)
especially good for the scammers because they don't even have to host the stuff...

mirrorbird (20:36:21)
zoi: lol i always felt bad for those people paying scamsites to get access to NNTP!

mirrorbird (20:36:06)
not sure when the 'hacker' culture switched from "censor nothing" to "censor everything", must have been around 2007. right i'll stop my plix

zoi (20:36:05)
apparently paying for access to those good binary-permissive news servers is still the #1 way to sail the high seas

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