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		icedchai on Sept 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM Today, Usenet is obscure. Late 90's was right around when Usenet was at its peak. ISPs back then advertised newsgroups as a feature: "we have a full newsfeed", that sort of thing. I worked at one that built a server with a whopping 9 gigabyte hard drive just for the NNTP feed! That was pretty cutting edge back in 1995.

bdowling on Sept 9, 2022 | [–]

Among the general MTV-watching audience of the 90’s, Usenet was very obscure.

ocbyc on Sept 7, 2022 | [–]

I subscribed to newzbin we'll into the mid 2010's.

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