Archive for February 9th, 2005
Using Usenet
Now that I understand a little bit more about how it is organized, I may be able to put Usenet to work for me. I installed Thunderbird, which has an email client as well as a news reader. I used Google to search for the groups that I might want to subscribe to. Thunderbird [...]
Using IRC
This past week has taken me to some new corners of the internet I’d never seen. Communicating on the Web introduced me to Internet Relay Chat. I have no experience with IM or other direct messaging applications, so this was my introduction.
Technical issue: It took me a while to get oriented to Chatzilla. I spent [...]
