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The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be | ZDNET

2023/12/20 13:22:41 GMT

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-usenet-how-the-original-social-media-platform-came-to-be/

←The Chevrolet of Watsonville story is basically how hackers* of the mid 1980s *felt* when they got into a Unix machine as “guest” and found /usr/games to be intact

“Suffice it to say that everyone in possession of a copy of the LAION-5B images has hundreds if not thousands of instances of CSAM” | …so that’s 0.0001% of the content, then→

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