• dtrain@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    What’s funny is that the source those *arrs are downloading from is largely unchanged from the 90’s &aughts by still being newsgroup based

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, I’ve been using newsgroups since the 90s back when I was also using xdcc on irc. Times were quite different.

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      3 months ago

      Funny thing, I tried using newsgroups for their intended purpose after rediscovering that Thunderbird is also a newsreader. The amount of topics is large (and really old), but the ones I checked out haven’t had many updates. Though i admit I haven’t been brave enough to dive into the alt. group yet. It reminds me of the internet before the web.