oh god how did this get here i am not good with computer

 


 

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The scenes with the shark are usually very intense and disturbing.

 

I use Arch BTW

 

Fun fact: Neo-Nazi dipshit cartoonist Stonetoss is in fact Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, Texas


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Tag your posts with the appropriate newsgroups. Anime posts get tagged as #rec.arts.anime, programming goes in #comp.lang.* as appropriate and so forth. Remember excessive crossposting is discouraged!


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So Usenet is kind of like a federated forum but it works more like email than, say, Mastodon. Every NNTP server has messages to all the newsgroups it carries delivered to it from an upstream server, and every time you post you send a message to your Usenet server that then in turn propagates it upstream, it's all relay based. Instead of all the messages going into a big fucking hellpile like Mastodon, though, it's organized into newsgroups, each of which has a name that describes its major topic. Back in the day it was very active for text posts and threads, so you'd post a message about, say, anime to rec.arts.anime.misc (the miscellaneous chat newsgroup under the rec.arts.anime tree) and everyone who reads raam would get it and could reply. The groups were/are, as shown there, organized in a hierarchical tree, kinda like domain names; "rec" is for recreational topics, "comp" is computer related shit, "sci" is science, and good ol' "alt" is the "fuck your stupid taxonomy" tree that had its own stupid taxonomy that was a lot like the regular one, just... under alt.


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in reply to @mintexists's post:

basically it’s like a more modern BBS. you have a bunch of basically forums (gets killed by usenet aficionados) called newsgroups on a collection of servers. the servers share resources between them taking advantage of fat internet pipes and users connect to individual servers to access posts/files.

newsgroup names are a kind of hierarchical classification system so you can download the index of names and then “browse” them offline. also usenet uses a different protocol? it’s a more standardized/organized version of the web is how i would describe it? also most have premium fees for faster access?

like reddit if there were sub-subreddits and lots more direct piracy

i am sure i got something wrong it’s been 17 years since i was involved in it.

usenet was essentially a message board in the really olden days of the internet, and posts on it were organized into 'newsgroups'. a newsgroup was sort of like a subreddit on reddit; something like #rec.arts.anime would only contain posts and discussions about anime