Sentences with phrase «usenet days»

And I've been around since USENET days... the internet has always been a place where people yell at each other.

I once (long ago in my usenet days) had a simple explanation of my own for this which, has also been shot down, so I won't venture an alternative.

I've «known» him online since the Usenet days.

(It's a truism from Usenet days that one way to get good information on the Net is to post what you think and await correction.

Not exact matches

A Usenet chain letter circulated in the following days, asking Internet users to be on the lookout for the vehicle.

You see kids, back when I joined the online world in the ancient days of 1995 (you wouldn't BELIEVE how much of a pain it is to cram a cuneiform tablet into a modem), the internet was a much different realm — email existed, FTP existed, a few text - heavy websites existed, but a significant part of our social interaction took place in a huge and diverse set of discussion groups collectively called the Usenet.

To get online in those days you usually had to have an academic, corporate, or military connection, so the Usenet population was mostly adult and educated.

Back in the prehistoric days of usenet, any newsgroup worth its salt had an FAQ in which newbies were advised to silently lurk in order to get the lay of the land, so to speak, prior to engaging their keyboards.

Wired did a piece on how screwed up the searching of the Usenet archive was, and Google responded within a day by fixing what it claimed was a minor bug.

In the early (usenet) days, this same kind of robust discussion, then referred to as «flamefests», was broadly considered unworthy of suit.