zonklezoop

Sorry about the confusion. I meant Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

I think your confusion is in thinking that Usenet is a centralized space. It isn’t. Yes, you need a provider, but if one does carry what you want, you go elsewhere.

Highly recommend reading the wiki articlenon Usenet.

Fairly early on in the COVID days, it got Adam Schlesinger. To this day, it’s the one celebrity death that felt personal to me.

For those who don’t recognize the name, Adam was one half of the songwriting duo in Fountains of Wayne. Who you know best, of course, for “Stacy’s Mom.” God, their songwriting was sublime though. And then Adam did “That Thing You Do”, Ivy, Tinted Windows, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and a ton of other stuff.

Maybe it’s partly the collective trauma of the pandemic, but his death still hurts.

It must have been around 1981. Five years old. Empire Strikes Back was probably the first movie I ever saw in theaters.

I woke up from a nightmare and went across the hall to my parents’ room for some comfort. They both started to get up and they were fucking STORMTROOPERS! I ran through the house screaming while they calmly and quietly pursued.

It was the most vivid, realistic, and terrifying dream I have ever had.

I spent a fair bit of the past weekend spinning it up and loading my library. Still have some cleanup to do, a fair bit of learning I think, and dipping into the community for some questions. At this point, I’m not sure it holds a ton of value for me personally, but it looks great and has been a lot of fun. Definitely looking forward to what the future brings.