The biggest Flamewar
What was the biggest flamewar on usenet ever? What were some funny memories of it. usenet
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I’ve been preserving the recent Usenet posts involving my real name, aliases, RootBadger, and related accusations. What I have saved includes full message headers, Message-IDs, dates, newsgroups, send...
Archived UseNet websites: the flonk, the 'nose, and the mighty alt dot fucking flame
Here are a few links to archived flame-related websites some like-minded friends and I "maintained" in the late 90s/early 00s: Mine - mainly alt.flame https://web.archive.org/web/20001018011029/http:/...
Quit Lurking and Start Poasting, Ya Ornery Bastards
Bring Us Another Eternal September Some of you old Usenet hands remember September 1993. AOL opened the gates, the newcomers came pouring in, and September never ended. The old guard called it Eternal...
From the Archives: When Trolling Took Some Effort
I ran across an old alt.comp.virus thread from 2006 that reminded me what Usenet trolling used to look like. The subject started innocently enough: "HELP Windows ME - Operating system not found." Then...
The Trolls Used to Be Better
There was a time when trolling required patience, creativity, and enough intelligence to keep twenty people arguing for days without realizing they'd been played. The old-school troll had a plan. He'd...
Let’s September This Place
I just learned what the old Usenet term "Eternal September" meant. For those who don't know, every September a new batch of college kids got access to Usenet and came flooding in. Then AOL opened the...
hawkeye football is a medical condition
Being an Iowa fan is not really a hobby. It is more like a yearly medical test to see how much punting one man can watch before he starts talking to the garage door. I love the Hawkeyes, do not get me...
that behind the back bigfoot clip
Saw this clip going around from Squatch Watchers saying Bigfoot was filmed from behind. I do not know. The walk is weird enough to look twice at, but it also has that problem every woods video has now...
my smart fridge has standards now
My smart fridge asked me to update its privacy settings. Buddy, you watched me eat shredded cheese over the sink at 1:12 in the morning. There is no privacy left between us. humor
jimothy is a weird little guy
Jimothy is one of those internet things where I looked once and then had to look again. He is a Seattle raccoon that went viral because he has short spine syndrome, so he is built like somebody compre...
these AI bigfoots are getting weird
I keep seeing these AI Bigfoots lately and they are getting weirder. The one in this picture looks like somebody told a computer "make a Bigfoot on some logs" and the computer got most of the way ther...
rb.alt.usenet.legends
Here you go.. A place where you can recognize the old legends. https://rootbadger.com/g/rb.alt.usenet.legends
Brennus
well that guy seems like an annoying retarded piece of shit. I am suddenly reminded of why I left Usenet🤣
you do not hear much about chupacabras anymore
You know what I don't hear much about anymore? Chupacabras. For a while there, every weird dead goat or half-bald coyote had people talking. Puerto Rico, Texas, Mexico, all those ranch stories. Then B...
Requiem for a Newsgroup: When Usenet Got Paved Over
I've been digging through some old Usenet archives and came across alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, which eventually led me to something called Requiem for a Newsgroup. I wasn't there for the Flon...
What ever happened to
Gary Burnore of Databasix?. And Belinda, was it? Are they even still alive? usenet #Trolls
that connecticut road crossing sounds close
Saw the BFRO added a fresh Connecticut one, and this one is the kind that sticks with me. Guy says he was leaving a cabin near Beach Pond in Voluntown around 1:45 in the morning, not far from the Pach...
that blue mountain clip is worth a look
Saw this Blue Mountain one going around and it is not the same deal as that Connecticut road crossing I posted. This one is video, out by the Umatilla National Forest in Oregon, not a fresh BFRO road...
A tribute to the fallen
A bit morbid I know, but it feels appropriate to mention here those who are sadly no longer with us to see this modern interpretation of UseNet. Too many to remember all at once but a few who spring t...