cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/1072752
For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/K4EIh
yeah. but i think most of them excluded binaries, even back then.
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No, binaries were included. That was the main way binaries were exchanged for a time.
I’m pretty sure around where i live you did not get the alt.binaries groups except if you went to a proper usenet provider and payed. the ISPs didn’t want to pay for all of the storage. but this was a long time ago and i wasn’t yet interested in stuff like that. maybe i misremember.