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🎸 🏳️🌈 ⁂⋅ Welcome to the Eternal September of open source. Here’s what we plan to do for maintainers.
OCTADE USENET IS NOT DEAD !!!!! USENET IS STILL FREE FREE FREE!
Usenet is an ever-living, Casper the friendly ghost of discussion networks.
Just a friendly reminder that Usenet still exists and access to text newsgroups is still FREE. Access is provided by volunteer sysops around the world. See links below.
Back in its glory days it seems that just about every academic institution had its own Usenet hierarchy of newsgroups.
Linux was revealed to the world via Usenet.
Open source philosophy gained its steam via Usenet.
Usenet is the original free speech network.
Usenet is the original 'social network'.
Simple and free access to text-only Usenet Newsgroups
https://eternal-september.org/
#Usenet #BBS #NetworkNews #EternalSeptember #usenet #nntp #decentralized #censorship #retro #freespeech
Usenet is an ever-living, Casper the friendly ghost of discussion networks.
Just a friendly reminder that Usenet still exists and access to text newsgroups is still FREE. Access is provided by volunteer sysops around the world. See links below.
Back in its glory days it seems that just about every academic institution had its own Usenet hierarchy of newsgroups.
Linux was revealed to the world via Usenet.
Open source philosophy gained its steam via Usenet.
Usenet is the original free speech network.
Usenet is the original 'social network'.
Simple and free access to text-only Usenet Newsgroups
https://eternal-september.org/
#Usenet #BBS #NetworkNews #EternalSeptember #usenet #nntp #decentralized #censorship #retro #freespeech
Lennart Hengstmengel
diana 🏳️⚧️🦋🌱I'm so old, I remember the internet before the dreadful afternoon of #EternalSeptember
I remember forums and when PHP was created. The golden age of the internet, post #EternalSeptember
MathiasTCK.bsky.socialI love the phrase #EternalSeptember to describe the impact of easy internet access.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal...
Our previous systems of #FactChecking are insufficient, but we cam create better. Just little things like #AltText can build upon each other.
Eternal September - Wikipedia
Eternal September - Wikipedia
Back in 1993, I went to get another degree to just to get internet access, which was one of the few ways to get it back then. We had VAX and Unix, both fine platforms, hundreds of students would log in to one CPU from a terminal on campus or the house. We were connected to the world and communications were fast. I remember that's when the entire continent of Australia was connected by a pair of 2MB cables at the time. We had many distributed servers for news, email, IRC, gopher, etc, but it was lightning fast. Engineers at companies put tech documents on ftp servers. The internet was a big world library and the world was free. #JavaScript wasn't invented yet to slow us down or bury us in popups and advertisements. The entire internet was ad-free and advertising was a ban offense.
Then one morning I remember what would be known as #EternalSeptember, thanks to #AOL. And the #CanterSiegel spam happened. And the real cranks invaded. Many of us banned every .com address to regain sanity. This is when investors invaded the internet to hype it up into television quality. At least we still have #Wikipedia, #InternetArchive, and #Mastodon. Watching #Bluesky open up the floodgates to fascists was obvious to those of us who remember the past.
Then one morning I remember what would be known as #EternalSeptember, thanks to #AOL. And the #CanterSiegel spam happened. And the real cranks invaded. Many of us banned every .com address to regain sanity. This is when investors invaded the internet to hype it up into television quality. At least we still have #Wikipedia, #InternetArchive, and #Mastodon. Watching #Bluesky open up the floodgates to fascists was obvious to those of us who remember the past.
River City Random ☑️I wish #eternalseptember would end and the #aiwinter would get here soon.
jlapoutreSeeing this #forkiverse thing emerging in my timeline got me curious and somehow reminds me of the #eternalseptember usenet discussions from the early nineties. Makes me feel old. We did survive at that time, I bet we will again