We return to the early 80s and 90s to discuss the rise of consumer access to Usenet and the following decline of the service and its rise to the ranks of the undead.

Contents:

• Show introduction
• Merging of networks
• SPAM, SPAM, more SPAM
• A brief analysis of the “Decline”

Resources:

• Mozilla Thunderbird: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
• Eternal September: https://www.eternal-september.org/

Sources:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987679 – Hacker News fo ...