{"id":1871,"date":"2011-06-22T20:57:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2011-06-22T20:57:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:57:46","slug":"old-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"Old News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone&#8217;s interested in a snippet of Internet history, olduse.net is worth a look: it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Usenet\">usenet<\/a> updated in real-time, from 30 years ago, so well before <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eternal_september\">Eternal September<\/a>, when the Internet was populated by only geeks.<\/p>\n<p>Come on, tell me that phrases like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt such time as we acquire 1200-baud dialout capability\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>don&#8217;t get your heart racing? No? Just me then.<\/p>\n<p>For the non-network geeks reading, 1200-baud is in this sense used as 1200 bits per second- <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baud\">not strictly correct<\/a>, but good enough for this purpose. A typical broadband connection today will run between 8 million and 5 million bits\/sec&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>You can play with olduse.net at the <a href=\"http:\/\/olduse.net\">web interface<\/a>, or if you have a newsreader, point it at nntp.olduse.net. If you have a default newsreader, <a href=\"nntp:\/\/nntp.olduse.net\">this link<\/a> might do it for you.<\/p>\n<p>Usenet is the oldest proper discussion system on the Internet- it&#8217;s use is declining as Twatter, Facebook and web forums become the current mediums, but Usenet is the <strong>original<\/strong> Internet social network- some of those currently evangalising could do to take note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone&#8217;s interested in a snippet of Internet history, olduse.net is worth a look: it&#8217;s usenet updated in real-time, from 30 years ago, so well before Eternal September, when the Internet was populated by only geeks. Come on, tell me that phrases like: At such time as we acquire 1200-baud dialout capability don&#8217;t get your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old News<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}