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Usenet is the only TOTSE-like experience still alive

  1. 2016-02-17 at 7:50 PM UTC
    #1
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    Except with way, way more spam.

    And Usenet has of course been around for way longer.

    There are some pretty good niche communities that deal with technical subjects. It's a lot of fun to bounce with some really intelligent specialists who act like hilarious assholes to noobs (like myself) trying to inquire about their field.

    There's also some pretty chillax TOTSE-like communities still alive.
  2. 2016-02-18 at 1:14 AM UTC
    #2
    Kek Houston
    HURR DURR MUH TOTSE!

    Stop being so angry.
  3. 2016-02-18 at 2:02 AM UTC
    #3
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    Okay keep pretending like you live in the 90's why not switch to dialup and use PgP on windows 95 while your at it too?. Notice how every year things get harder and harder and more ads and popups and fake bullshit social media infects our online space like a virus and we lose free speech to stupidity and mass culture. Remember last year when we had RDFRN and it was somewhat first page Google tier And before that zok And before that totse And now we have an obscure dead forum.. Every year it gets worse.
  4. 2016-02-18 at 4:41 AM UTC
    #4
    EasyDoesIt Tuskegee Airman
    Except with way, way more spam.

    And Usenet has of course been around for way longer.

    There are some pretty good niche communities that deal with technical subjects. It's a lot of fun to bounce with some really intelligent specialists who act like hilarious assholes to noobs (like myself) trying to inquire about their field.

    There's also some pretty chillax TOTSE-like communities still alive.


    This is kind of interesting. I've never used Usenet. Is it like a dial in bbs?
  5. 2016-02-18 at 4:58 AM UTC
    #5
    Kek Houston
    I've never used Usenet.

    Fo real?
  6. 2016-02-18 at 6:35 AM UTC
    #6
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    Okay keep pretending like you live in the 90's why not switch to dialup and use PgP on windows 95 while your at it too?. Notice how every year things get harder and harder and more ads and popups and fake bullshit social media infects our online space like a virus and we lose free speech to stupidity and mass culture. Remember last year when we had RDFRN and it was somewhat first page Google tier And before that zok And before that totse And now we have an obscure dead forum.. Every year it gets worse.

    I don't see your point. Yeah Usenet is old. But it's also free of all that bullshit you mentioned. No videogamey point based bullshit like on regular social media. Nothing. Just discussion.
  7. 2016-02-18 at 6:40 AM UTC
    #7
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    This is kind of interesting. I've never used Usenet. Is it like a dial in bbs?
    Usenet is a decentralized network. Think of it like a forum that can be hosted by anyone. The best part about Usenet is getting the best scene release files, it's even better than torrents in some regards, although it has slowed down in recent years.
  8. 2016-02-18 at 7:17 AM UTC
    #8
    EasyDoesIt Tuskegee Airman
    Fo real?

    Yeah I don't remember ever using it.

    Usenet is a decentralized network. Think of it like a forum that can be hosted by anyone. The best part about Usenet is getting the best scene release files, it's even better than torrents in some regards, although it has slowed down in recent years.

    I want to check this out.
  9. 2016-02-18 at 12:10 PM UTC
    #9
    Suicidal Fish Houston
    Link?
  10. 2016-02-18 at 1:15 PM UTC
    #10
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    4chan is the best forum ever invented. TOTSE is like an ant versus a tREX on a space station with lasers CHAN CULTURE rules the internet along with this board and anonymous is truly the best poster on the web fuck namefags. There is a reason there will never be TOTSEchan right? You know
  11. 2016-02-18 at 2 PM UTC
    #11
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    There is a reason there will never be TOTSEchan right?

    Yeah, none of us are that much of a faggot to try and admin a totse based chan site.
  12. 2016-02-18 at 2:15 PM UTC
    #12
    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
  13. 2016-02-18 at 2:17 PM UTC
    #13
    Suicidal Fish Houston

    How do we lynch a traitor?
  14. 2016-02-18 at 2:45 PM UTC
    #14
    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    How do we lynch a traitor?

    I've already left you the blueprint. Didn't you get the memo? ;)
  15. 2016-02-18 at 3:01 PM UTC
    #15
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    I already say this website should require a $10 fee to post long before you posted that pic . I am an original SA troll. This is what you get when you fuck with people like me. Bitch I've been trolling on the internet since I was 7 years old with a windows 95 on dialup.
  16. 2016-02-18 at 3:05 PM UTC
    #16
    EasyDoesIt Tuskegee Airman
    I already say this website should require a $10 fee to post long before you posted that pic . I am an original SA troll. This is what you get when you fuck with people like me. Bitch I've been trolling on the internet since I was 7 years old with a windows 95 on dialup.

    And look at the winner you've become.
  17. 2016-02-18 at 3:45 PM UTC
    #17
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    This is what happens when you give children computers. Now I can get meth online without ever stepping outside. This is why 10 year old girls go on YOUNOW and make child porn So they get lots of likes and fans
  18. 2016-02-19 at 4:28 AM UTC
    #18
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Usenet is a decentralized network. Think of it like a forum that can be hosted by anyone. The best part about Usenet is getting the best scene release files, it's even better than torrents in some regards, although it has slowed down in recent years.

    I wouldn't really call usenet decentralized. I mean sure, there isn't one central usenet server but there are (roughly fixed) N syndicated servers, entry into the network is not democratic and retrieval of user information is not significantly more involved than from a centralized BBS.

    Also scene has always been shit, it's just before good private trackers popped up it was the least shit in a sea of super-shit. The majority of scene rules are just cool-kids-club tier garbage. They can't even beat screeners to the relevant private trackers anymore.
  19. 2016-02-19 at 4:40 AM UTC
    #19
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    I wouldn't really call usenet decentralized. I mean sure, there isn't one central usenet server but there are (roughly fixed) N syndicated servers, entry into the network is not democratic and retrieval of user information is not significantly more involved than from a centralized BBS.

    Also scene has always been shit, it's just before good private trackers popped up it was the least shit in a sea of super-shit. The majority of scene rules are just cool-kids-club tier garbage. They can't even beat screeners to the relevant private trackers anymore.
    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.
  20. 2016-02-19 at 4:49 AM UTC
    #20
    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    I've never actually used it, oddly enough


    aren't all the decent networks pay2play?
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