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[06-13 23:40]
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No: since they used local phone numbers, they were free
[06-13 23:40]
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Icewolfz: yeah usenet was basically shared forum
[06-13 23:41]
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Icewolfz: fidonet was what most bbses used back then
[06-13 23:41]
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No: usenet eventually became so riddled with malware AOL and Google killed it
[06-13 23:41]
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Icewolfz: usenet was also to hard to control
[06-13 23:41]
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No: it was also the first decent place on the internet to get great porn.
[06-13 23:41]
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Icewolfz: and was major warez and porn
[06-13 23:42]
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Icewolfz: so a lot of isps killed support for it
[06-13 23:42]
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Icewolfz: usenet is still around and hard to track on it
[06-13 23:43]
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No: a lot of us used usenet posts to screw with people
[06-13 23:43]
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No: I used IRC a lot in those days
[06-13 23:43]
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No: and on linux, there's a symbolic link command
[06-13 23:43]
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Icewolfz: yeah not as used much now
[06-13 23:44]
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Icewolfz: irc is still around but its not nearly as big
[06-13 23:44]
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No: so if you wanted to crash people
[06-13 23:44]
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Icewolfz: us eot have like 10 or 20 netowkrs now ther onl a few
[06-13 23:44]
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No: you would lm -s /dev/zero /home/user/boobies.gif
[06-13 23:44]
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Icewolfz: mirc was he big client
[06-13 23:44]
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No: and then tell people to download it
[06-13 23:45]
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No: mirc was way late to the game :)
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