brat_olin wrote:
Caly usenet, nie tylko sciepe zamykaja. Od kilku godzin niektore
posty na pl.pregierz tez nie maja nicka wysylajacego, jeno "pl.pregierz. Jakby co, to milo bylo! (30 lat!).
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https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/
USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix
Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age
Liam Proven
Wed 30 Aug 2023 // 14:27 UTC
The USENET management committee has reconvened and there are green shoots of growth in the original, pre-World Wide Web social network.
USENET, or NetNews, is a text-only social discussions forum, or rather a set of a great many forums, called "newsgroups," carried by multiple servers around the world. Although the original developers closed down their instance in 2010, that was just one
server out of hundreds, and many are still running just fine. It never went away – it's still alive, you can get on it for free, and there is a choice of client apps for most OSes to help you navigate.
Although USENET is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network, the Big-8 board is the closest thing it has to a central governing authority. Board member Tristan Miller told The Reg: "Jason Evans and I re-established the Board in 2020, after a long period of
dormancy. We were joined a few months later by Rayner Lucas."
Among other things, the board manages the list of newsgroups, and now that there's an active board again, it has been busy. It deleted some very old groups at the moderators' request, and added the first new newsgroup in many years for the Gemini
protocol. If you have a News client, news:comp.infosystems.gemini ought to open it. The board has also revamped the website, run a Reddit Ask Me Anything session, updated the GNU Stump and WebStump packages used by moderators, and more.
USENET is older than the web, and works more like email: servers carry a list of newsgroups, and sync messages with each other. /..../
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