[HN Gopher] Tom Dowdy (2022)
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       Tom Dowdy (2022)
        
       Author : tambourine_man
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2024-02-04 07:32 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | ur-whale wrote:
       | > More relevant to my future however, Tom was also a participant
       | on an early internet (pre-Web) kind of discussion forum called
       | Usenet -- a kind of "reddit" if you will
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       | So, this is where we are ... in 2024 you need to _explain_ what
       | Usenet us ... jeez I feel old.
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       | And I'll also note that Usenet has/had features that none of the
       | so-called "modern" platform have, such as the ability to exchange
       | arbitrary files without centralized control / censorship.
        
         | dangerlibrary wrote:
         | File exchange is not hard technically. Hosting file exchanges
         | is hard because it is legislated that it must be hard. It is
         | that way for reasons some might object to, like copyright
         | infringement and ITAR export control, and for reasons that are
         | generally accepted as beneficial like interrupting flows of
         | CSAM.
        
           | jWhick wrote:
           | there are always torrents
        
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