What/when was your first and last USENET post

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When was the last time you posted to USENET and what was it? When/what was the first.

Enquiring minds and all that...

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

First was about the Jim Rose Circus on the X-Files during that strange time in the UK (1995?) when the internet and the x-files overwhelming broke in public consciousness simultaneously and seemed to become linked for a while. There was a period when the only thing we knew about on the internet was the X-Files episode guide and 'cool site of the day'.

Last post - was so unmemorable it escapes me - but was probably to that cesspool of abuse trading as rec.games.go

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

First post:
I know that I posted earlier under a free university account, but it didn't record my name and I don't remember the email address. However, my first post under my name was on August 19, 1991 to alt.rock-n-roll. The subject: "Mitch Easter where are you?"

Last post:
To rec.arts.movies.past-films on March 14, 2003. Replying on a thread called "Good Negotiation Scene"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

dunno. alt.punk, probly.

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

First: to misc.writing in around 1997.
Last: probably to uk.railway in 2003.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

first: to alt.support.depression some time in 1996 about some medication interaction or other (god what a goth). Thats not counting local newsgroups at my Uni.

Last post was probably 2 or 3 days ago, to aus.culture.gothic which is the only group I (rarely) still post on.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

First was in 1994, last in 2001.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

First -- something to alt.music.alternative in 1993 about who knows what.

Last -- something to a.m.a. in 2000 probably saying in quiet despair about how the place wasn't much fun anymore.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

First - was the 4AD list on USENET in the olden days? Possibly that, or a Brian Eno equivalent, summer 1993.

Last - something despairing on rec.audio.high-end, 2001 or 2002.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

What's USENET?

I'm serious. This is one of those InterWeb thingamajigs of which I've never quite understood what they are. Can someone illuminate me?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember, and I don't think I (or you all) really want to know.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

me on usenet!

HAHAHA IAN ON USENET

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, i just checked again (we did this before right?)... it was a thread that ned ended up replying on in early 95 about INDIE ROCK (Ned was pro-indie at the time).

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

First :

From: nick nelson (nickn@midiline.la.ca.us)
Subject: Let's Active
View: Complete Thread (14 articles)
Original Format
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Date: 1992-04-21 19:55:56 PST

I can't add much to Fraser's reply except to say that if you like
Let's Active, you'll probably also like Pylon, and a good place to
start with them is the CD "Hits" which, not surprisingly, is a
"best of" compilation of their LPs.

PS, the origin of the band name Let's Active came from the Japanese
Helly Kitty phenomenon. It was a slogan printed on T-shirt, cup,
or something meaning "let's do something together" or something
like that. I read this in a Mitch Easter interview.

My first post, no annoying signature yet - Nick N

Last:
Probably something on the Replacements list in '93.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned was pro-indie at the time

Heh. My tolerance level likely hadn't built up yet. Was it about a group in particular or just General Stuffage?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

My first posts on Usenet were me under a completely false name that I have forgotten (not same one I posted on ama under) because I was not allowed to use anything resembling my real name online, and I spent a good like three months trolling the Friends newsgroup for no apparent reason (I have watched the show possibly three times, total and had no actual real beef with it at all) other than abject, horrible boredom. Those people were touchier than Traino and Heather combined and god was it hysterical.

Fuck knows what my last post was on Usenet but it was probably some completely irrelevant, non-topical Catholocism bait cross posted to 27 a.m.* groups in reply to my aforementioned nemesis Traino, since I don't actually recall ever discussing the topic of any of the newsgroups I inexplicably bookmarked.

I know, this is all very shocking.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow so am I the only one here who still actively (after a fashion) uses usenet? I read acg, alt.humor.best-of-usenet and alt.foklore.urban from time to time. We still have a full feed newsfeed at the isp I work at. When it breaks next to no one cares though.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

To this day I still imagine Traino as actually being that Peter Pan dude.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

there are plenty of pornhounds who still read usenet

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I was just thinking same thing, "I thought usenet had just devolved into the sex stories hierarchy by now".

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh. My tolerance level likely hadn't built up yet. Was it about a group in particular or just General Stuffage?

haha, it was about a band that you actually started a thread on ILM about maybe 6 mos. ago because there name wasn't a top-level thread about them, despite the band in question being discussed in depth in many other ILM subthreads.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

First that was logged, February 1992 on rmi
Last was somewhere in February 1995 on r.m.misc

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Gygax you are wonderfully cryptic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Not that anyone cares, but I meant '03 for my last post, not '93.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never posted anything on Usenet nor have I frequented any newsgroups. On occasion I will stumble across a Usenet thread and read it, but I was never interested in that part of the online experience. Well, that and I only had enough time to devote to just one message board when I started going online.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow so am I the only one here who still actively (after a fashion) uses usenet?

I actually use usenet quite a bit - it's my #1 source for mp3s, and MST3K episodes.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

What's USENET?

I'm serious. This is one of those InterWeb thingamajigs of which I've never quite understood what they are. Can someone illuminate me?

Basically, usenet is the oldest message board on the Internet - there's tens of thousands of groups. Usenet works in a distributed fashion - when someone posts a message on a usenet news server, that message is transferred from news server to news server until every news server contains a copy of that message (at least those news servers that carry the group).

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

does anyone use usenet anymore?

― amateurist0, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

yep. it's better than torrents for TV shows.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

If you can find a news server that will carry the groups with binaries that is :/

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

yeh, I pay for EasyNews.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

first: I dunno, it was under a forgotten pseudonym (a succession of them), either to alt.music.ska or alt.punk, before I discovered the political groups.

last: three years ago to a literature group trying to find the name of a book I had read when I was a kid

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

I just looked up my name, and found myself making "cracker" jokes on a Waffle House alt.site. That pretty much sums up my Usenet experience.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

My first usenet posting would have been in early 1999, my last would have been in 2005, I believe. I came there to argue about Y2K with the Clan of the Cave Bear folks who hung about in the Timebomb 2000 forum, found an enduring home at Ask A Drunk, and finally petered out as the resident smartass at the Alexander the Great Q&A forum.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I've never quite found out what Usenet is... Some sort of network of message boards?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I still read alt.sysadmin.recovery, but never bother to post to it.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Tuomas, Check this page out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

FP, never posted? I never quite got the hang of lurking. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Correction: I mistook the question to be about Lusenet, the Greenspun board where ILX originated, not usenet, the broader institution that's almost as old as the internet itself.

My first usenet posting would have been in 1994 sometime. I began in the groups devoted to programming. The earliest one I could locate in the Google archive was July 1995. My last would have been in about 2002. It might have been in an archaeology group.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

i think my first and last posts were to alt.food.waffle-house

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

First post: alt.music.alternative sometime in '94
Last post: rec.arts.books in '99

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

The first was to alt.music.alternative, 1997.

The last was to alt.tv.big-brother, 2000.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

rec.arts.movies, in 1989, about Ben Hur and goofs in movies.

My last actual post was rec.arts.comics.xbooks in 2003, though an appalling joke from years gone past turned up in rec.humor.funny.reruns (!) last year.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Jesus, I'm reading a thread about Supreme where someone says "I agree that it wasn't as deep (i.e., multi-layered) as ASTRO CITY". Kill me now (but kill El4yn3 first).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Supreme... god... why did I buy that?

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

I posted to la.eats relatively recently.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

does anyone still use this?

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 6 August 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago)

i read rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan and alt.music.sonic-youth as a kid. the sy newsgroup got me into all kinds of cool things like the dead c, bardo pond, flying saucer attack etc.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 6 August 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago)

it's still great for WaReZ

― diamonddave85, Monday, 6 August 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago)

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