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I used to use IRC back in the day but had to google XDCC
I just discovered fserving using mIRC and I was like whaaaaa....
Very similar age here. I started out using it on dial-up, using it as a disconnected resource (dial-up, pick up new info, disconnect, read & reply, dial-up to send replies and pickup new news, repeat as needed).
Most people talking about it as an alternative to torrents, which I never much used it as. The vast majority of what I used it for was text based, only occasionally using binary groups for ahem adult pictographic interests. Before having always-on Internet access and most content being available via HTTP services it was a great resource, and with a good client (and a group full or users who knew how to reply properly!) the threaded behaviour was far better than any web based discussion forum has replicated IMO.
I don't remember it being that packed with them, but on adult groups they were certainly there, and often bold as brass.
I get the impression that is how it is generally used these days.
Back in the day it was less centralised. ISPs and universities had their own cache and pulled/pushed information via multiple sources.
It is a very different arrangement now, as the diagram posted above illustrates, and was already heading that way already as I stopped using it (in the early-to-mid 00s).
Usenet is one the beautiful thing on the world.
Unlimited Storage for free for anyone. One time configured in SABnzbd the Usenet is very very cool.
oh u again...
I haven't had much luck using it but that is because I have been looking for old stuff
I'm the man that host his backups in Usenet totally correct.
Old stuff like what ?
But have you seen VHS tapes?
lol not u, i mean the op xD
This is how I used to download Gameboy Advance ROMs when I was younger and still used dialup. #gbatemp on... EFNet I think?
You'd type something in a channel to search, and all these bots would reply if they have the file. You'd then ask a bot for the file and it'd send it to you via XDCC (which is peer-to-peer, bypassing the server) and you'd hope your internet didn't drop out.
A debrid service (Real Debrid or Premiumize) caches torrents. They have a very large number of torrents downloaded onto their servers. You can then download the torrents from their CDN nodes via regular HTTPS, at full speeds. If they don't have the torrent cached, then they download it at their end, and Premiumize will also seed the torrent for three days after it finishes downloading.
Premiumize includes Usenet access too - they have their own Usenet server you can use, or you can use their web UI. They don't cache as many torrents as and are much more expensive than Real Debrid.
Most pirate TV/movie apps like Weyd, Syncler, CinemaHD, etc work best with a debrid account since you can immediately start streaming any video from a torrent, if it's cached. No waiting to download it.
Uh, alt.binaries.* I think you mean...
What are you talking about? Not only do they only hold so many days, but shit gets removed in hours and days.
Good torrent trackers >>>> usenet
Occasionally, though if you are specifically meaning the adult content found there-in i never found usenet to be the best source for that. By the time connectivity was fast and cheap enough to get decent quality dirt other sources were more convenient, and before then the old paper & VHS methods offered better quality and were easy enough to hide if you were not greedy!
If you are looking to obtain or distribute binaries of significant size, yes. It is a tool specifically designed for that job. Try using torrents for what usenet is best at though…
So sad that most forums died and still fighting that trend alongside Lowendtalk. It sucks when a few monopolistic companies own the repository of information to delete and censor at will (Facebook/Twitter). When these companies go bankrupt or have catastrophic failures (MySpace) all that information could be lost. An unimaginable amount of original music was lost when the MySpace database was accidentally deleted.
Better to have the internet's information sources spread out among many providers so one catastrophic failure at Facebook doesn't hurt everyone (elite paid Russian hackers could cause havoc in the Facebook database & backup systems?)
What advance in forum tech could make them relevant again? If they took on social network characteristics & became more instant/interactive like Discord?