Who remembers alt.fan.tonya.harding.whack.whack.whack ?

[tiredofsametab@fedia.io]

Ah, Usenet...

[hasherm0n@lemmy.world]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonya_Harding

Specifically, see the section titled "Assault of Nancy Kerrigan and legal proceedings"

It was a pretty huge deal at the time, but has since faded.

[iamdisappoint@reddthat.com]

Gillooly!

[regularjoe@lemmy.world]

And who can forget fnord and plonk?

[cidvicious@sh.itjust.works]

Also alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb was a pretty common name for, uh, shitposting newsgroups. Whatever we called shitposting back then, I can't remember.

[blargle@sh.itjust.works]

alt.schmuck.follower.dead.bad.sci-fi.writer
alt.schmuck.follower.dead.bad.lady.novelist

[blargle@sh.itjust.works]

blargle slaps RegularJoe around a bit with a large trout

[protist@mander.xyz]

Whhhhhyyyy?!

[affenlehrer@feddit.org]

Trolling maybe?

[cidvicious@sh.itjust.works]

Or just spamming I guess.

[5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I never really understood what usenet actually was. How does it compare to Lemmy or Mastodon?

[tylerdurdon@lemmy.world]

WWWWHHHHHHHHYYYYYYY!?!

[Guest]

Watch the movie I Tonya, a great biopic about the whole incident

[uri@infosec.pub]

Someone explain 🫤

[late_night@sopuli.xyz]

"If Lemmy and Mastodon were playing football, usenet would be the stadium that they played on. It would be the sun that shone down on them."

-- Nancy, The Craft

[bort@hilariouschaos.com]

That’s my phone’s notification sound!

[naich@lemmings.world]

alt.cows.moo.moo.moo was my go to.

[zaph@sh.itjust.works]

Girl on the left got her boyfriend to break the girl on the right's kneecaps with a metal pipe

[aeronmelon@lemmy.world]

That’s just poetry.

[aeronmelon@lemmy.world]

It was the 1990s, this was one of the biggest shocks of the decade.