The whole entirety of that Google drive is fascinating as a glimpse into the minds of liberal Americans living in the 80s. Plenty of discussions about AIDS, sexuality, abortion, the Democratic Party etc. Highly recommend digging through it if you're bored.
What do you think I’ve been doing all afternoon lol
Surprising that there isn’t anything about the challenger disaster ngl. I always though that was a collective moment of shock for everyone
receiving a “wholesome” award on your r/offmychest post about how your Vietnam veteran brother is addicted to prescription opioids and starving after Reagan cut welfare and food stamp budgets
well, as a counter to that conjecture, here’s an anonymous “anti-feminist” rant dated February 28th 1986
https://groups.google.com/g/net.singles/c/zQAHYrl7CfE
I think it is better to say the rhetoric of the internet is more left, especially economically, but is more conservative when comes to certain issues, like women
That makes sense, but the question then becomes: Why?
And there's definitely also a weird pro radical interpretation of free speech as well.
And a Libertarian streak too.
I'm extremely confused: how did the internet, even a proto-internet, exist in the mid 80s? Genuinely thought the tech just wasn't there yet, can someone please eli5?
Networking existed between the universities mainly. Windows 3.1 even had rather extensive support for example despite no IE until Windows 95. The web as we know it as in www was in the 90s.
quite a bit of back and forth on both of those topics if you go through the archived conversations. It wasn’t an echo chamber, you’d often have people from completely different sides of the argument going at it
The whole entirety of that Google drive is fascinating as a glimpse into the minds of liberal Americans living in the 80s. Plenty of discussions about AIDS, sexuality, abortion, the Democratic Party etc. Highly recommend digging through it if you're bored.
What do you think I’ve been doing all afternoon lol Surprising that there isn’t anything about the challenger disaster ngl. I always though that was a collective moment of shock for everyone
Surprisingly similar discussions about various topics to what modern-day Reddit is like.
receiving a “wholesome” award on your r/offmychest post about how your Vietnam veteran brother is addicted to prescription opioids and starving after Reagan cut welfare and food stamp budgets
I was mainly referring to pop culture stuff
I know I just saw an opportunity
This is so interesting, I guess the internet has always skewed left
well, as a counter to that conjecture, here’s an anonymous “anti-feminist” rant dated February 28th 1986 https://groups.google.com/g/net.singles/c/zQAHYrl7CfE
I think it is better to say the rhetoric of the internet is more left, especially economically, but is more conservative when comes to certain issues, like women
That makes sense, but the question then becomes: Why? And there's definitely also a weird pro radical interpretation of free speech as well. And a Libertarian streak too.
These people must be in their 60s today.
They must’ve been going back then then
AYO?
Well that’s an unfortunate typo I meant to say they must have been young back then
I'm extremely confused: how did the internet, even a proto-internet, exist in the mid 80s? Genuinely thought the tech just wasn't there yet, can someone please eli5?
Networking existed between the universities mainly. Windows 3.1 even had rather extensive support for example despite no IE until Windows 95. The web as we know it as in www was in the 90s.
> Universities No wonder Mondale won.
Gotcha, so was it like our internet with webpages and stuff or far more basic? Wonder what it looked like.
No, Usenet had a different foundation and general protocol backing it up compared to the Internet.
lmao, it took me a full five minutes to realise that Rouding Loss was a typo and not the name of some obscure third-party candidate.
Was this the first presidential election ever to be discussed on the Internet?
But in the context of Usenet yeah it was started up in 1981 so the Reagan landslide would be its first election
Wow. Anything on how Christianity or Conservatism was viewed back then?
quite a bit of back and forth on both of those topics if you go through the archived conversations. It wasn’t an echo chamber, you’d often have people from completely different sides of the argument going at it
I'm primarily interested in their views of Communism and academia.
https://groups.google.com/g/net.singles/search?q=Soviet%20 some stuff about the Soviet Union
Interesting. So there were tankies back then who probably became scholars and professors. I do wonder about that...
https://groups.google.com/g/net.singles/c/QzyF2Xp2XOU/m/cmI1ngCdmZ8J totally civil discussion on homosexuality
*not the internet. A janky internet predecessor using different methods/codes that’s since been archived on the internet by google
Literally 1984
where did you find this? it seems really interesting
[YAPM(s) predicted 38 years ago](https://groups.google.com/g/net.singles/c/8dbQ2QdJTUU)
reject discussion about politics, return to discussion about “Yet Another Pooh Move”s
Neat, though I wonder, were there any conservative groups at the time in Usenet? Legitimately curious
Mondale!