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2011-06-05 Goodbye usenet, hello olduse.net #pnx #usenet
On May 31st I decided that 18+ years of usenet was enough for me, informed my peers in PNX and closed down news.koldfront.dk. I used to enjoy discussing with...
2010-05-21 Duke university, home of the first usenet server... #usenet
... shuts down its usenet access. They should just make it text-only, then it'll run happily by itself in the corner of a server room with no maintainance...
2005-01-29 Eleven years of september #usenet
Less than two years after the "Ten Years of September - 1993-2003"-celebration, AOL has decided to stop offering its customers usenet-access. How about that...
2005-01-17 20 Years of Usenet #computers #usenet
Google has posted a timeline for the first 20 years of Usenet. Interesting is the coincidence that an Amiga 1000 turned up in the garbage for me to pick up...
2004-05-21 Search, news and algorithms #perl #programming #usenet
"Nutch is a nascent effort to implement an open-source web search engine." "Plucene - A Perl port of the Lucene search engine." "Papercut is a news server...
2003-01-08 blogs vs. usenet #usenet
"Since web forums are better, it should be ridiculously easy to only see the 30 you have not read without having to wade through the 20 you've already seen...