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>>107873090
and in 2026 if you're cool

>>107873090
>usenet
>like reddit
No.
Usenet was distributed. Your local admin decided which groups to fetch, which to offer to peer sites.
>don't want to dick around with alt.binaries.*, don't fetch/index/serve that traffic
>your site didn't carry alt.binaries.furry? fine, connect to another NNTP server and pull that group from them
No retarded speech codes.
The concept of engagement farming hadn't been invented yet.
There wasn't a cabal of jannies pushing their beliefs on the rest of the population.
>look at the *.aquaria nonsense
Anybody could newgroup a group, especially in alt.*
Usenet in the late 80s, early 90s was a comfy place.
t. ...!uw-beaver!ranier!anon