From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • Draconic NEOEnglish
    2•4 months ago

    Didn’t usenet also have a lot of spam problems associated with it?

    • db0OPEnglish
      4•4 months ago

      Everything had spam problems 😅

      • Draconic NEOEnglish
        2•4 months ago

        Good point, spam always has been and always will be an issue.

    • @marx2kEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      Yes. Still does. Though blocking Google groups cuts down on most of it

      • Draconic NEOEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        Yeah I’ve heard the spam problems have gotten worse these days but I always knew people complained about that because many of the services just didn’t moderate spam.