USENET
USENET (or user's network) is a non-centralized computer network for the discussion of topics and the sharing of files (binaries) via newsgroups using NNTP. Many people historically had a USENET feed from their ISP, but this is now uncommon. USENET is historically significant.
IndieWeb Examples
Christian Weiske uses leafnode to keep a long-term archive of some newsgroups at home.
Dr. Matt Lee is still actively using USENET.
See Also
- NNTP
- SDF a tilde service that provides a USENET feed.
- BBS often provided USENET feeds
- olduse.net a project that resurrects USENET a year at a time from archives, offering users a chance to read the archives in real time.
- https://twitter.com/chancerubbage/status/1031348661475844096 perhaps in reference to Dejanews becoming the default searchable archive for Usenet, Google acquiring them, enhancing their features and adding more historical archives, and then burying the entire thing under Google Groups, making previous Usenet posts unsearchable & unfindable in practice.
- "Usenet was pretty nice too, until Google killed it." @chancerubbage August 20, 2018
- 2018-12-26 : Some thoughts on Social Networking and Usenet (archived)
- On the “extremely high quality of the clients available for Usenet, as opposed to those for current social media” going in on how subscriptions used to work, how threads were natively supported, pick-and-read-mode letting the user chose what to spend time on, and Scorefiles for training the reader application on what was important for the user.