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The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

I remember stitching multipart uuencoded files together by hand, lol. Then when OS/2 2.0 came out, IBM fully embraced the Internet of the time and had the best Usenet client that would gasp do all of that automatically and display the image or save the binary file you were after. WebEx was also the best web browser until Netscape took over.