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Anyone who has heard of usenet or hasn’t thinks it’s some kind of mythical place; much like the internet is to seniors. Seniors say things like

I read that on the google!

I used to say “I saw it on the internet” and no more questions were asked, but now people want links and addresses and references! It’s worse than wikipedia.

My new strategy is to just say “oh yeah, it was all over the Usenet” then people won’t ask for links and references, it will just understood that it came from the land beyond and is not to be trifled with

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Sam

lol@shep

It's funny that as time goes on, the older technologies that existed before the world wide web - IRC, usenet, etc. - become more advanced.

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Jon Sheppard

You could just tell people that Usenet is the new Google/interweb. If they get that confused look on their faces, tell them that 1) they need to make sure their computer is turned on and 2) they need to download the newest version of the internets. Then maybe they'll know wtf Usenet is.

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