#usenet

How I spent two decades tracking down the creators of a 1987 USENET game and learned modern packaging tools in the process.

The TUI client for Usenet enthusiasts

An ActivityPub server with an NNTP interface.

"NO ONE ON THE INTERNET CAN EVER USE THAT NIEMÖLLER BIT EVER AGAIN. IT'S PLAYED. IT'S THROUGH. FUCKING STOP IT, OR I'LL MOTHERFUCKING COME FOR YOU."

"This literally threatens our children, and there can be no higher priority than keeping our children safe." Just Usenet? Why not just shut off the whole net?

"It starts with good intentions. 'I'm going to get all of these movies while I can.'"

"look at what makes one website seem jam-packed full of Smarties and the other packed full of Dumbells"

Pretty flexible Usenet binary downloader in Tcl

"What's saddest about this announcement is how few people will care." On the other hand, no more posts of "Me too" in quadruplicate.

Kinda sad how interesting events on Usenet disappear after about 1995.

First mention of C64 on Usetnet, courtesy of Google Groups

Holy crap. Atom feeds for Usenet groups, from Google Groups

Cheap download quota, with month-to-month rollover of unused quota

Holy crap this is a good Usenet-consumer