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A whole thread about usenet and not even one mention of alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk ?

Usenet culture and things like that group which was part of the empire of meow (http://xahlee.info/Netiquette_dir/_/meow_wars.html) are kind of interesting an represent a part of the Internet that seems lost, but probably still exists under all the shiney social media sites.

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It's not interesting though, except to the handful of people who did it, it's even more boring now than it was at the time.

The main consequence of that flooding, disrupting and destroying of newsgroups is people moved on to the shiny social media sites, and Usenet was effectively killed off.

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