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  • (Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Sunday February 04 2018, @01:14AM

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Sunday February 04 2018, @01:14AM (#632738) Journal

    "What was your favorite distraction in college before you graduated into the real world where economic opportunity doesn't exist?"

    While it wasn't my most frequent distraction (IM & email discussion lists), my actual favorite was to hang out on Usenet, particularly the Ultima Dragons newsgroup, which more often than not tended to focus on topics completely unrelated to our shared interest. (The most memorable example being a long thread in which a bunch of us attempted to convince one member that most women do wash their genitals, as he had commented offhand that he didn't like giving oral sex because his wife refused to do so and claimed nobody else does, either.)

    I started out spending time on Usenet again back around the time Soylent News came out, but the lack of decent Linux clients — like ones that don't hardcode line-breaks — caused me to drift away again. I tried using Wine to run old copies of the programs I used back in the day, but can't manage to get the fonts to not be distorted & jaggy without making them gigantic.

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