• 𝄞 Inkstain (they/them)𓆩 𓆪@pawb.social
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    23 hours ago

    As someone who just read the Wikipedia article on Usenet and doesn’t know anything else about it: Would this be pretty much the equivalent of the internet before search engines? Because if so I’m really intrigued

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      4 hours ago

      From my small understanding, usenet was like several forums loosely connected to one another, many servers are used mainly for filesharing. Every time I’ve checked some servers, all of them had a paywall to create an account.

    • phar@lemmy.ml
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      21 hours ago

      Never mind search engines, Usenet was being used before people were using web browsers.