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"is Darth Vader a deadbeat dad?" the legendary thread on the local Cleveland Ohio bbs in 1986. The forum post gathered 6,000 comments before it was locked by a mod.

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Some credit it as the birth place of the men’s rights movement.

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HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net
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Is this really a forum from 1985?

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axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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Yes, these are archives of Usenet newsgroups. Looks like the first posts are actually from 1983, before Return of the Jedi even came out.

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HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net
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Interesting

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Retrosound [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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It’s not a BBS. BBSes were open to the public. USENET, you had to be a university student or researcher. Internet was off-limits to normies and even when .coms started coming out, they were regarded with suspicion by the .edu base. “Eww, disgusting profit! Get off our network!”

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axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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This anti-normie stance has continued with modern Usenet, since it’s now primarily a file-sharing system. Downloads/uploads by sheer volume have increased every year. Over 100 terabytes downloaded in 2021.

So I have to laugh when I read the anti-piracy posts from the 80s

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