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USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] frezik@midwest.social 202 points 2 years ago (117 children)

One of the things that contributed to the downfall of USENET was when people worked out how to post binary files, encoded as multi-part blocks of ASCII text. It still has piracy problems but you can just ignore that stuff.

Ignore all the software pirates over there. Yes, sir, the ones sitting at the free bar full of top shelf liquor with strippers on each side. Yup, better not go over there.

[โ€“] 8BitRoadTrip@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Wait is there blackjack too?

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