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"There absolutely was an Internet in 1995. Tiny ISPs were everywhere; IRC and Usenet flourished. The Space Jam website went up in 1996...Compuserv and The Source existed in the 1980s, as well as BBS services."

"I remember the 80s and 90s when John would taunt virus makers in every media where he could find a way to speak. He dared EVERYONE to hack his computers and gave out his Usenet address and , later, IP address. His was the only usable anti-virus software at the time.."

The Forgotten Internet — What’s Left of the Web’s Darkest Corners?

"I keep thinking about Google Books and the wholesale scanning that went on. Google Groups and all the now-missing Usenet posts. It ain't just search."

"C. See {K&R}. :newbie: /n[y]oo'bee/ n. [orig. from British public-school and military slang variant of `new boy'] A USENET neophyte. This term surfaced in the {newsgroup} talk.bizarre but is now in wide use."

"OK a quick tech question. I'm getting a little nostalgic for Usenet. Does anyone know of a reliable GUI based Usenet reader that allows reading and posting that's operable with Ubuntu? Many many thanks in advance."

"Yes, it's not markup but typesetting [1]. Well before 2013 people used to use stars, _underscores_ or /slashes/ in Usenet forums or mailing lists to mimic typesetting, which lead to Markdown."

As ‘Twin Peaks’ Turns 35, the Mystery Is Still the Message for a World of Fans

"A month or so ago, I came across someone referencing a USENET discussion from the '80s where sci-fi nerds were complaining that Frank Herbert's Dune didn't have weirding modules, and that Lynch had violated the spirit of the novels. Some things don't change, at least."

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