Forgive me usenet, for I have sinned.

It has been 20 years since I posted. All had gone dark, I was in a place
of shadow and sadness.

I'm weak and weary now, the bones creak, the colors fade, but the fans
still spin, the disks do rattle, the network lights do blink.

Sup, ya'll?

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 2026-10-26, Dave Shevett <shevett@pobox.com> wrote:

Forgive me usenet, for I have sinned.

It has been 20 years since I posted. All had gone dark, I was in a place
of shadow and sadness.

I'm weak and weary now, the bones creak, the colors fade, but the fans
still spin, the disks do rattle, the network lights do blink.

Sup, ya'll?

Hang out for a while, you'll find out soon enough.

Welcome back.

--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | In this world there are
\ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | two kinds of people:
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | 1. Those who can extrapolate
/ \ if you read it the right way. | from incomplete data.

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 2026-10-26, Dave Shevett wrote:

Forgive me usenet, for I have sinned.

It has been 20 years since I posted. All had gone dark, I was in a place
of shadow and sadness.

I'm weak and weary now, the bones creak, the colors fade, but the fans
still spin, the disks do rattle, the network lights do blink.

Sup, ya'll?

The web is in a state that is almost like the 90s, except that now the
features that require specific browsers also require powerful rigs with
CPU and GPU power just to display some text.

"Smart"phones are so locked down that a Windows 4 install would be much
more powerful.

Hey, at least one can argue that Google stopping the peering a couple
years ago means we've finally moved on into October 1993, where (when?)
are we now, 1995?

--
Nuno Silva

(Who has not experienced these earlier years of September 1993.)

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On Mon, 26 Oct 2026 03:29:26 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2026-10-26, Dave Shevett <shevett@pobox.com> wrote:

Sup, ya'll?

Hang out for a while, you'll find out soon enough.

"I'm at your service, sir. I have been looking for you"
"I'm getting nervous, sir."

Welcome back.

ty.

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:59:31 -0000 (UTC), Dave Shevett wrote:

Forgive me usenet, for I have sinned.

It has been 20 years since I posted. All had gone dark, I was in a place
of shadow and sadness.

I'm weak and weary now, the bones creak, the colors fade, but the fans
still spin, the disks do rattle, the network lights do blink.

Sup, ya'll?

You know Google Groups is out, yes?

--
Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae.
- Julius Caesar

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:17:17 +0100, s|b wrote:

On Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:59:31 -0000 (UTC), Dave Shevett wrote:

Forgive me usenet, for I have sinned.

It has been 20 years since I posted. All had gone dark, I was in a
place of shadow and sadness.

I'm weak and weary now, the bones creak, the colors fade, but the fans
still spin, the disks do rattle, the network lights do blink.

Sup, ya'll?

You know Google Groups is out, yes?

Yaazzzz. My "i am learning all that happened" scope says that when Groups detached from Usenet it returned to some semblance of sanity.

I guess what I'm trying to do now is find out if what is reborn now can be
a community I can hang in and be my nerdself and look forward to seeing
ya'll in.


--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 10/27/2026 9:13 AM, Dave Shevett wrote:

On Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:17:17 +0100, s|b wrote:

On Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:59:31 -0000 (UTC), Dave Shevett wrote:

Forgive me usenet, for I have sinned.

It has been 20 years since I posted. All had gone dark, I was in a
place of shadow and sadness.

I'm weak and weary now, the bones creak, the colors fade, but the fans
still spin, the disks do rattle, the network lights do blink.

Sup, ya'll?

You know Google Groups is out, yes?

Yaazzzz. My "i am learning all that happened" scope says that when Groups detached from Usenet it returned to some semblance of sanity.

It did that, yes.

I guess what I'm trying to do now is find out if what is reborn now can be
a community I can hang in and be my nerdself and look forward to seeing
ya'll in.

Welcome to alt.folklore.computers. Here we seem to mostly talk about
VAXen, so how's your VAX? I presume you have one.
--
Johann | email: invalid -> com | http://www.myrkraverk.com/blog/
I'm not from the Internet, I just work there. | via Easynews.com https://bsky.app/profile/myrkraverk.bsky.social | for ( ;; ) _:;
Federated at https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/myrkraverk.bsky.social

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 2026-10-27, Dave Shevett wrote:

On Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:17:17 +0100, s|b wrote:

On Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:59:31 -0000 (UTC), Dave Shevett wrote:

Forgive me usenet, for I have sinned.

It has been 20 years since I posted. All had gone dark, I was in a
place of shadow and sadness.

I'm weak and weary now, the bones creak, the colors fade, but the fans
still spin, the disks do rattle, the network lights do blink.

Sup, ya'll?

You know Google Groups is out, yes?

Yaazzzz. My "i am learning all that happened" scope says that when Groups detached from Usenet it returned to some semblance of sanity.

And before they cut peering, it was becoming impossible, it was only
possible to read USENET with enough killfiling and perhaps also a server
which cancelled spam articles (and this was an effort to cater to actual
users who did use Google Groups, as opposed to just refuse articles
injected by that SPAM-enabling operation).

In fact, Google cut peering because Google couldn't handle abuse of
their own services... I think that's a hell of a testimony about how
great of a tech company Google is.

I guess what I'm trying to do now is find out if what is reborn now can be
a community I can hang in and be my nerdself and look forward to seeing ya'll in.

Let's hope you find at least some groups currently to your liking, be it
here or somewhere else in the hierarchy :-)

--
Nuno Silva

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.19
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