Fark eh. I used to have a double digit account number of there. Those were the days.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Pretty similar for me, but I never did Fark. Funnily enough after digg was sold and relaunched I started using the new digg pretty regularly. It isn't old digg, but it does find and aggregate decent news and entertainment links.
Newgroups on AOL>Too Many to List
BBS > various forums > /. & Metafilter & fark (no digg), > Reddit & twitter > the fediverse!
Had almost the same journey, except I've never heard of fark before.
I kind of skipped Fark entirely, but other than that, yeah that was my route here.
I went back to Fark for a bit, it's surprisingly unchanged. That's good and bad, it's so linear and most of the comments are snarky/clever but maybe not particularly insightful. Reddit had a nice mix, a lot of funny predictable answers "And my axe!" but then also expert posters that would write 2 intelligent pages on a subject.
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"History is the Hajj to utopia"
From memory, from somewhere in the Red Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Just add usenet on the front end there.
And niche dialup bbs before that
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Somehow I missed Fark in that transition, but otherwise that was my journey too.
I hope so, but I'm not a believer yet.
Can’t leave out irc.