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MUDs, Usenet, and open source all play a part in 50 years of IF history.
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Ars Technica, 30 June 2024
Reddit has replaced message boards and Usenet forums.
—Alessa Dominguez, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
The song was recorded off the German radio station NDR in the early ’80s and was just a question mark on a cassette case until 2007, when it was digitized and posted to various Usenet newsgroups and music forums along with requests for the internet’s help in identifying the track.
—Adam Bumas, WIRED, 6 Nov. 2024
There have been dark wells of hate online since the Usenet era, but back then, misanthropy was distributed across thousands of different platforms.
—Steven Johnson, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2018
Jeremy Reimer Usenet was also the home to many communication firsts.
—Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2024
The Usenet group’s archives from that era appear to have been lost.
—Matt Curtis, New York Times, 21 June 2023
Gorski’s far more bristling approach, birthed in the baptismal fires of Usenet flame wars, is a good representation of skeptic culture, where the quality of the information is far more important than civility.
—Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
On a Usenet group in 1989, someone started a thread to discuss which actresses where the most attractive.
—WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
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Ars Technica, 30 June 2024
Reddit has replaced message boards and Usenet forums.
—Alessa Dominguez, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
The song was recorded off the German radio station NDR in the early ’80s and was just a question mark on a cassette case until 2007, when it was digitized and posted to various Usenet newsgroups and music forums along with requests for the internet’s help in identifying the track.
—Adam Bumas, WIRED, 6 Nov. 2024
There have been dark wells of hate online since the Usenet era, but back then, misanthropy was distributed across thousands of different platforms.
—Steven Johnson, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2018
Jeremy Reimer Usenet was also the home to many communication firsts.
—Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2024
The Usenet group’s archives from that era appear to have been lost.
—Matt Curtis, New York Times, 21 June 2023
Gorski’s far more bristling approach, birthed in the baptismal fires of Usenet flame wars, is a good representation of skeptic culture, where the quality of the information is far more important than civility.
—Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
On a Usenet group in 1989, someone started a thread to discuss which actresses where the most attractive.
—WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
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“Usenet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Usenet. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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