Usenet may seem like a stone-age relic of the days before there was internet (hard to fathom, no?), but it is indeed still around. For those of you unfamiliar, Usenet was the first incarnation of the internet forum. Articles posted to Usenet are called newsgroups which are organized into various subjects. Usenet posts are binary which allows for a lot of file sharing fun. In fact, too much fun. A lot of illicit and illegal materials got passed along, drawing the ire of internet police and eventually the take down of many groups. But that’s nothing new. What is new, however, is BinTube a bina... read more
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