18 days ago
Andy Baio : Pirating the Olympics, Then and Now - Back in 2004, I wrote about how high-quality videos from the Olympics in Athens were being digitized and posted online, in defiance of the networks and the IOC's rules. At the time, NBC's online coverage was pioneering, but still restrictive by today's
nelson : Pirating the Olympics - Andy does another nice investigation into TV downloads
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3 month ago
deusx : The Internet dies a little bit | MetaFilter - "NO ONE ON THE INTERNET CAN EVER USE THAT NIEMÖLLER BIT EVER AGAIN. IT'S PLAYED. IT'S THROUGH. FUCKING STOP IT, OR I'LL MOTHERFUCKING COME FOR YOU."
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3 month ago
deusx : 3 Internet Providers Agree to Block Access to Child Pornography - NYTimes.com - "This literally threatens our children, and there can be no higher priority than keeping our children safe." Just Usenet? Why not just shut off the whole net?
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : The Whitburn Project: 120 Years of Music Chart History - For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the 1890s. To assist their efforts, they've cre
nelson : The Whitburn Project - Andy documents another awesome underground resource; a database of all the top songs since the 1890s
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18 month ago
deusx : Wired News: Downloading Is a Packrat's Dream - "It starts with good intentions. 'I'm going to get all of these movies while I can.'"
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18 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Smarties and Dumbells - "look at what makes one website seem jam-packed full of Smarties and the other packed full of Dumbells"
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19 month ago
philgyford : uk.media | Google Groups - Wired UK to Cease Publication - Ten years ago. It feels like both yesterday and another life.
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20 month ago
Rod Begbie : net.bugs: Computer bugs in the year 2000 - A marvellous find -- A USENET discussion from 1985 about date bugs. I love the idea that there was a mini-Y2K on Jan 1st 1970 for all the places using one digit to represent year. [via] #
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21 month ago
cameron : Flame Warriors Home - A satirical take on the various subtypes of flamers in online discussions.
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28 month ago
cameron : Invisible Crowds in Cyberspace: Mapping the Social Structure of the Usenet - Marc's classic paper on metrics for Usenet
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37 month ago
deusx : Brag - Download Binaries From Newsgroups - Pretty flexible Usenet binary downloader in Tcl
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plasticbag : Oh wow! I've just missed my ten year anniversary of my first (nervous) post to Usenet... - And it would have to be a bloody Babylon 5 group, wouldn't it. This is not the life-history of a Nobel prize winner...
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44 month ago
philgyford : Many-to-Many: Finding Mavens in Usenet - Hot social network analysis action.
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44 month ago
deusx : Nelson's Weblog: culture / deathOfUsenet2 - "What's saddest about this announcement is how few people will care." On the other hand, no more posts of "Me too" in quadruplicate.
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44 month ago
plasticbag : My first ever post to Usenet, back in June 1995 - This is back when I was trying to plough my way through a doctorate in Classics, before I threw it all away and ran off to the big city to make beautiful web things
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deusx : Google Groups : net.micro : Commodore 64 - A New Computer - First mention of C64 on Usetnet, courtesy of Google Groups
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ricmac : Google releases 20 Year Usenet Timeline - e.g. first Friends thread, in 1994: "It's not the best show on TV, and I suspect it may end up relying too much on weird characters for humor (Lisa Kudrow in particular), but it has potential."
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45 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Online X-Face Converter - Convertir des images utilisables dans une en-tete x-face. [via] #
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47 month ago
Philippe Janvier : 20 Year Archive on Google Groups - Un coup de vieux pour les jeunes :) [via] #
jkottke : The previous two links courtesy of the 20 Year Usenet Timeline on Google Groups
Jeremy Zawodny : 20 Year Archive on Google Groups - 20 Year Archive on Google Groups: highlights of the past 20 years, as seen thru the eyes of Usenet
Matthew M. Boedicker : Google 20 Year Usenet Timeline
Kayode Okeyode : 20 Year Archive on Google Groups
deusx : 20 Year Archive on Google Groups - Kinda sad how interesting events on Usenet disappear after about 1995.
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52 month ago
deusx : Atom feeds for alt.fan.penn-n-teller - Holy crap. Atom feeds for Usenet groups, from Google Groups
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