A thought prompted by seeing instances growing and struggling to have enough resources. Then and now, people in groups trying to communicate something. Hardware became incredibly faster over decades, storage became incredibly more huge, and software bloat kept pace?

  • dogma@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Know someone to get on or know someone to talk back and forth with?

    Haven’t paid close attention, and just knew that when I see mention of Usenet, there’s all talk about invites nowadays.

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      1 year ago

      Usenet is mainly used for pirating these days. The invites are probably referring to indexers which are sites that post nzb files that tell your Usenet client which posts to download for a certain movie/tv show/ etc.