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Posted: 8/2/2009 1:12:06 PM EDT

Just curious to see who out there remembers and/or used the usenet group rec.guns? Back in college - '94-98 as the net was coming around rec.guns was my mainstay for online gun info and transactions. For those who don't know what usenet is or were too young at the time: Usenet

Posted: 8/2/2009 1:13:34 PM EDT

[#1]

I found AR15.com through rec.guns in 1997-8 or so.

Posted: 8/2/2009 1:17:50 PM EDT

[#2]

Sorry to say, yes.

Posted: 8/2/2009 1:18:53 PM EDT

[#3]

I was there.

Posted: 8/2/2009 1:20:10 PM EDT

[#4]

Usenet...the home of ASCII pr0n.

Posted: 8/2/2009 1:23:30 PM EDT

[#5]

I never posted there very much, but I've followed rec.guns on and off since about 1993. In its heyday, about 250-350 posts per day IIRC. I learned a hell of a lot from that group. Now it's down to 10-20 posts per day. In the olden days, the web as we know it now didn't exist, so USENET groups were the place to go for online information. Now with about 10 times more people online, and web forums being ubiquitous, USENET has withered to almost nothing. Many formerly very active groups are now dead and gone. As much fun as arfcom is, I miss the old days sometimes.

Posted: 8/2/2009 1:27:33 PM EDT

[#6]

here.

Posted: 8/2/2009 1:32:34 PM EDT

[#7]

I still browse USENET

Posted: 8/2/2009 1:35:04 PM EDT

[#8]

I was there.

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:00:32 PM EDT

[#9]

yeah I remember usenet, but I never used rec. anything. alt. was where it was at

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:05:04 PM EDT

[#10]

rec. guns, crafts.homebrewing and alt.tasteless...

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:05:37 PM EDT

[#11]

I remember usenet, but wasn't into firearms then.

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:06:01 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
yeah I remember usenet, but I never used rec. anything. alt. was where it was at

alt.great.ass.paulina, IIRC. Thank you, Vernman, where ever you are.

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:06:55 PM EDT

[#13]

.alt was like the 4chan fetus.

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:08:01 PM EDT

[#14]

rec.guns....got my C&R because of rec.guns.

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:08:41 PM EDT

[#15]

Haven't used Usenet since the mid 90's. That's about when using the internet became easy, so the retards started showing up.

That's why i hang in GD

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:08:46 PM EDT

[#16]

People pass around that 2 Girls stuff and I'm like that's so 80s.

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:09:24 PM EDT

[#17]

rec.guns? who the hell spends time in rec.*? alt.binaries.erotica.* is where it's at...

And it's all still there. Some of the groups are pretty dead(why bother with a news reader when you have ARFCOM?), and many others are 90+% spam, but there is still good content up there.

What I *REALLY* miss is the old Gopher servers. I don't want to think about all the time I wasted on a 14.4k modem downloading stuff from UMich and MIT

RIP hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:10:15 PM EDT

[#18]

I posted on rec.guns back in 1992.

Ammunition related, wouldn't you know...

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:10:45 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

rec.guns? who the hell spends time in rec.*? alt.binaries.erotica.* is where (ALL THE VIRUSES) it's at...

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:11:38 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Haven't used Usenet since the mid 90's. That's about when using the internet became easy, so the retards started showing up.

I remember when insisting on netiquette could lead to tar and feathering.

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:11:55 PM EDT

[#21]

on usenet everyday

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:13:33 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

rec.guns? who the hell spends time in rec.*? alt.binaries.erotica.* is where it's at...

And it's all still there. Some of the groups are pretty dead(why bother with a news reader when you have ARFCOM?), and many others are 90+% spam, but there is still good content up there.

What I *REALLY* miss is the old Gopher servers. I don't want to think about all the time I wasted on a 14.4k modem downloading stuff from UMich and MIT

RIP hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu

The old 33.6 modem would take forever to load pix.

On alt.binaries you'd have to pic one of the photos blind and wait 5 minutes for it to load...woe unto he who picked the wrong one in the series where the girl was still dressed....that was a waste of time!

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:14:05 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
on usenet everyday

me too...download alot from there

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:19:01 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

rec. guns, crafts.homebrewing and alt.tasteless...

Fascinating. I was a huge alt.tasteless subscriber. Also rec.pyrotechnics along with the rec.firearms.

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:20:36 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

On alt.binaries you'd have to pic one of the photos blind and wait 5 minutes for it to load...woe unto he who picked the wrong one in the series where the girl was still dressed....that was a waste of time!

Kids today got no idea how good they got it.

Warcraft? I just downloaded the latest version of Nethack.

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:21:08 PM EDT

[#26]

i was a god on r.s.f.c.

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:22:34 PM EDT

[#27]

I was there BEFORE Usenet. Try ARPANET.

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:33:46 PM EDT

[#28]

Starting in the late 1980s, yes. I'd get Usenet by telneting to it from an IBM mainframe. At home my modem was a snappy 2400 baud.

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:43:13 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
I still browse USENET

Me too, but I can only access it through the web interface since my ISP dropped their NewsGroup service and I'm not inclined to pay for an extra service.

Posted: 8/2/2009 2:59:12 PM EDT

[#30]

You're all a bunch of old geezers.

Posted: 8/2/2009 3:16:25 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
I found AR15.com through rec.guns in 1997-8 or so.

rec.guns(1995-96)...led to...subguns.com(1997-99)....led to....AR15.com(1999 on and off til present)

Posted: 8/2/2009 3:22:33 PM EDT

[#32]

Since '92. Anyone else remember .mil?

Posted: 8/2/2009 3:24:24 PM EDT

[#33]

I was on there and on talk.politics.guns from the mid '90's up until '01 or so.

Posted: 8/2/2009 3:47:58 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
You're all a bunch of old geezers.

+1

Oops, so am I.

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:05:54 PM EDT

[#35]

Yes, I remember usenet

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:07:56 PM EDT

[#36]

I posted there and other places and kept on getting banned by my ISP for my political rants and personal attacks

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:12:53 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
I posted there and other places and kept on getting banned by my ISP for my political rants and personal attacks

Alt.tasteless was a great place to develop your internet thick skin. They could smell weakness pouring out from the CRT and tended to behave like sharks in a frenzy.

And where else could you get things like recipes from St. Jeffy? Or a treatise on the joys of squicking a hooker's empty eye socket...

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:13:56 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:

I posted there and other places and kept on getting banned by my ISP for my political rants and personal attacks

Alt.tasteless was a great place to develop your internet thick skin. They could smell weakness pouring out from the CRT and tended to behave like sharks in a frenzy.

And where else could you get things like recipes from St. Jeffy? Or a treatise on the joys of squicking a hooker's empty eye socket...

You mean the Great Geoff Miller?

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:15:21 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I posted there and other places and kept on getting banned by my ISP for my political rants and personal attacks

Alt.tasteless was a great place to develop your internet thick skin. They could smell weakness pouring out from the CRT and tended to behave like sharks in a frenzy.

And where else could you get things like recipes from St. Jeffy? Or a treatise on the joys of squicking a hooker's empty eye socket...

You mean the Great Geoff Miller?

No-I mean Jeffery Dahmer.

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:15:32 PM EDT

[#40]

Although I spent more time on talk.politics.guns. Discussions there were more lively.

Kinda like GD vs. Team.

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:15:46 PM EDT

[#41]

I bought my own computer so I could have rec.guns

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:18:13 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:

Back in college - '94-98 as the net was coming around...

Funny, but that was pretty much when the net was on its deathbed and about to be taken over by gov. cronies....

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:18:15 PM EDT

[#43]

Yep, I was at talk.politics.guns and rec.guns.

That eventually lead me to arfcom

Edited to add, about that time or even earlier the woman who ran the NRA, I forget her name, had her own BBS.

How many here were on that BBS?

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:24:31 PM EDT

[#44]

I remember it.

Anyone remember FidoNet? I used to have a FidoNet hub back when I had my own BBS in the early 90's.

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:27:42 PM EDT

[#45]

I was more preoccupied with alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:33:26 PM EDT

[#46]

Found it my freshman year - 1987. How time flies...

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:35:39 PM EDT

[#47]

Yep. PlusP (Darrel Mulroy) was always good for a rant or two.

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:45:16 PM EDT

[#48]

Yep 93 or 94

used to use Gopher.

Posted: 8/2/2009 4:45:30 PM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:

Yep. PlusP (Darrel Mulroy) was always good for a rant or two.

Anyone from t.p.g remember John Schelereth, the original DU troll?

Posted: 8/2/2009 5:03:43 PM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:
Yep, I was at talk.politics.guns and rec.guns.

That eventually lead me to arfcom

Edited to add, about that time or even earlier the woman who ran the NRA, I forget her name, had her own BBS.

How many here were on that BBS?

Tanya Metaska?

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