Tristan Miller on Revitalising USENET Newsgroups
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-04-01 07:01:55 UTC
- Modified: 2022-04-01 07:01:55 UTC
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Summary: Tristan Miller was very prolific in USENET back when I was there until a decade ago (I had posted about 100,000 posts there), so it's not shocking to see that he gave a talk about the subject a couple of weeks ago. From the talk's outline: "This talk is about usenet, which is a worldwide online discussion network that was established in 1980, a decade before the World Wide Web. Unlike Web forums, control of Usenet is not centralized, but is rather distributed across an open federation of independent service providers. This makes the system transparent, robust, resistant to censorship, and most importantly, respectful of users' digital freedoms."
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