Usenet is the only TOTSE-like experience still alive

1. 2016-02-19 at 6:23 AM UTC

   #21
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   Fair enough. Usenet has its fair share of problems these days, and always has (primarily spam) but I still find it very interesting. My biggest draw for paying for access is the small technical forums. It feels like there are still people around who give a fuck about discussing rather that shitposting for gr8 internet points.

   
   Yeah, the comp.lang.* tree is surprisingly well informed/helpful although I haven't read any groups daily in years.
   
   

   I've never actually used it, oddly enough
   
   aren't all the decent networks pay2play?

   
   I think you can get all the discussion groups on free providers (if you're not too tin foil to use google groups, not sure what else is out there by way of a free service), and usually pay for the binary groups.
2. 2016-02-23 at 12:31 AM UTC

   #22
   

   HampTheToker African Astronaut

   Fair enough. Usenet has its fair share of problems these days, and always has (primarily spam) but I still find it very interesting. My biggest draw for paying for access is the small technical forums. It feels like there are still people around who give a fuck about discussing rather that shitposting for gr8 internet points.

   
   
   Fuck u m8 internet points r gr8
3. 2016-02-23 at 11:29 AM UTC

   #23
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   The underground chemistry forums I use have public bitcoin donation jar. Herpa derpA