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R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 - Columns by PC Magazine

Submitted by Infodiva

Jul 31, 2008

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Before the Eternal September, but after the Great Renaming, I learned about sex on Usenet. A few years later, on a Mac SE in a college basement, I met friends I still have today. We "spewed" about our teenage lives in ways that would be familiar to any MySpace blogger circa 2008, but that were radical, strange, and comforting in 1993. We made faraway friends, burned yearbooks to CDs and mailed them to Finland with way too many stamps. We were the first Net kids, really. Read the full article

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Infodiva,

Jul 31, 2008

I loved the Usenet. I had a Macintosh SE30 1988. I never could do ASCII art. I made tons of friends in Italy before my big trip back in 1997. Oh the memories.