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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:32:58 -0600, mwhaught wrote (in article <pblqi5xuvv.ln2@recgroups.com>):
Seems like there's quite a few ISPs dropping usenet feeds these days. If
you're not uploading/downloading files, recgroups.com could solve the
problem.
It's amazing still today how many people don't even know what usenet is. Even when I call into our tech support often even they don't know what I'm talking about. I tell my friends about newsgroups and they say they're not interested as they get enough news from the radio/TV. I mean really, this is 2008 or did I slip back in time somehow???
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:32:58 -0600, mwhaught wrote
(in article <pblqi5xuvv.ln2@recgroups.com>):
Seems like there's quite a few ISPs dropping usenet feeds these days. If
you're not uploading/downloading files, recgroups.com could solve the
problem.
It's amazing still today how many people don't even know what usenet is.
Even when I call into our tech support often even they don't know what I'm
talking about. I tell my friends about newsgroups and they say they're not
interested as they get enough news from the radio/TV. I mean really, this
is
2008 or did I slip back in time somehow???
In all reality, Usenet was 1990s cutting edge. And 1980s cutting edge if you had a colege/university account. I was playing around on the old FIDOnet back in the late '80s/ early '90s.
-mwh
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:14:14 -0600, Ruddell <ruddell'Elle-Kabong'@canada.com> wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:32:58 -0600, mwhaught wrote
(in article <pblqi5xuvv.ln2@recgroups.com>):
Seems like there's quite a few ISPs dropping usenet feeds these days. If
you're not uploading/downloading files, recgroups.com could solve the
problem.
It's amazing still today how many people don't even know what usenet is.
Even when I call into our tech support often even they don't know what I'm
talking about. I tell my friends about newsgroups and they say they're not
interested as they get enough news from the radio/TV. I mean really, this is
2008 or did I slip back in time somehow???
I did a little looking around the internet for news of Time Warner's alleged action. The phone number given by the OP began with area code 203 which is located in Conneticut. Here is a recent news story about usenet access in New York that might be related:
"If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them." -- Phil Pastoret ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:32:58 -0600, mwhaught wrote
(in article <pblqi5xuvv.ln2@recgroups.com>):
Seems like there's quite a few ISPs dropping usenet feeds these
days. If you're not uploading/downloading files, recgroups.com
could solve the problem.
It's amazing still today how many people don't even know what
usenet is. Even when I call into our tech support often even they
don't know what I'm talking about. I tell my friends about
newsgroups and they say they're not interested as they get enough
news from the radio/TV. I mean really, this is 2008 or did I slip
back in time somehow???
In all reality, Usenet was 1990s cutting edge. And 1980s cutting edge
if you had a colege/university account. I was playing around on the
old FIDOnet back in the late '80s/ early '90s.
Right- with local BBS systems, you had FIDOnet, RelayNet and I'm sure there were others. CompuServe had its own message boards, and Commodore users had Playnet, which later changed to Quantumlink.
I was on one local BBS that shut down. Many of its users switched to another new one that formed for its users. The founder either refused to hook up or could not afford to hook up with FIDOnet. So the name he gave it? WithoutANet!
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:48:14 -0400, "Paul Dalrymple" <PBudDalrymple@comcast.net> wrote:
mwhaught wrote:
On Jun 20 2008 12:14 AM, Ruddell wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:32:58 -0600, mwhaught wrote
(in article <pblqi5xuvv.ln2@recgroups.com>):
Seems like there's quite a few ISPs dropping usenet feeds these
days. If you're not uploading/downloading files, recgroups.com
could solve the problem.
It's amazing still today how many people don't even know what
usenet is. Even when I call into our tech support often even they
don't know what I'm talking about. I tell my friends about
newsgroups and they say they're not interested as they get enough
news from the radio/TV. I mean really, this is 2008 or did I slip
back in time somehow???
In all reality, Usenet was 1990s cutting edge. And 1980s cutting edge
if you had a colege/university account. I was playing around on the
old FIDOnet back in the late '80s/ early '90s.
Right- with local BBS systems, you had FIDOnet, RelayNet
and I'm sure there were others. CompuServe had its own message
boards, and Commodore users had Playnet, which later changed
to Quantumlink.
QLINK! I loved QLINK. It went on to become AOL. And don't forget GENIE.
In 1985 PlayNet licensed their system to Control Video Corporation (CVC, later renamed Quantum Computer Services), which in October 1991 changed its name to America Online. The modified version of the PlayNet software (Quantum Link or Q-Link) was ported by Quantum to the PC to create the first version of the AOL software. As recently as 2005, some aspects of the original PlayNet communication protocols still appeared to be used by AOL.
I was on one local BBS that shut down. Many of its users
switched to another new one that formed for its users. The
founder either refused to hook up or could not afford to hook
up with FIDOnet. So the name he gave it? WithoutANet!
There were a lot of good local BBS's around in those early days. The biggest problem was getting on them as the SysOps usually only had 1 or 2 phone lines at best.
There was a kinda of internet system that I was on while in college. Can't recall the name of it but it was run out of the University of Illinois in Champaign Illinois. Only universities that subscribed to it could get on it. I was at Purdue and they had a small room with about 4 monitors hooked into it. This was in the early to mid 70's. No IBM PCs yet. It had a killer (for the time) Star Trek game on it. Oh yeah, it had some other educational benefits as well.
Regards, //// (o o) -oOO--(_)--OOo-
"If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them." -- Phil Pastoret ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
