What is the OLDEST online account that you currently still own and still use somewhat frequently?
What is the OLDEST online account that you currently still own and still use somewhat frequently?
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Usenet account from 1987. And no, I'm not going to post what it is.
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What's "on" there? What can it be compared to at this time?
Usenet was the golden age of Reddit for its time. Before the binary newsgroups drowned everything out and web 1.0 captured everyone's attention.
In a way, it was a lot like Lemmy. Federated servers all inter-exchanged posts to a giant, global message board of newsgroups (roughly analogous to a subreddit or Lemmy community). Anyone could create a newsgroup and there were a lot of them.
When it was good, it fostered the same kind of genuine conversation that Reddit and Lemmy do when they're at their best. It was full of memes, too, although that word didn't exist then.
I haven't actually used that account other than to verify it is still there on my old university's servers, in almost 20 years. I probably should try it out again.
Usenet? Most new media can be found there. The most copyright-contentious files are not on there for long so most folks use automated downloaders.