From: theratur@openmailbox.org   
      
   Conceited Jerk  writes:   
      
   > On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:55:08 +0000, Nicolas belched forth:   
   >   
   >> Conceited Jerk  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> [11 quoted lines suppressed]   
   >>   
   >> It seems that the new place to go is the deep web... Image boards are   
   >> dead, and I can only hope that places like Usenet get back.   
   >> Have you some place to link on usenet or gopher? I'm interested.   
   >   
   > On the Usenet I usually lurk in the comp and misc hierarchy (comp.misc,   
   > comp.dcom.telecom, comp.sys.tandy, misc.news.*, the dictator.* groups) and   
   > some of the urban planning groups.  I'm not an active participant, but I do   
   > read.   
   >   
   > Gopher is more a nostalgia thing for me.  I usually browse the gopher holes   
   > at SDF (which is full of mostly "half-started" gopher sites) or try to find   
   > something intersting through Floodgap.  No real favourites other than   
   > Floodgap or Gopherpedia.   
   >   
   > Went to the Deep Web a few times.  Crawled back out.  There's some truly   
   > fucked up people out there... more fucked up than the Usenet on a bad day.   
      
   Thanks for the links.   
   On the deep web, well, it's like in life, if you don't go to the dark   
   part of the town, nothing will ever happen to you. You just have to go   
   at the right place. Don't search for the "hardcore".   
   Anyway, I start to realise that a lot of very good community are   
   actually hidden, to keep themselfs against the troll hoards. That's really   
   too bad. You sometimes needs password, or to know a guy already in the   
   community IRL.   
   The democratisation of internet to everyone is maybe the thing that   
   hurted it the most.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)