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Comment by jolmg | Hacker News Reader

Interesting that COMP.LANG.LISP has posts dating last month. I guess the network isn't dead. I wonder if there are groups with interesting recent activity.

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I think the binaries groups still get quite a bit of traffic :-)

I looked at COMP.LANG.SMALLTALK to see if I could figure out why Google is still blocking it but the contents seem to be from Scheme instead:

https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=comp.lang.smal...

That's interesting. It's around July 2006 that the posts started to change from being about Smalltalk to being about Lisp. Who knows if there's a thread that comments on the change.

I see the posts there are pretty interesting. This one led me to a bit of a rabbit hole:

https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=comp.lang.smallta...

https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=rec.autos.spor...

Was really suprised to see this, a page an a half of posts and healthy replies from just this last month. I really wonder what type of people still hang out there.

There is comp.os.cpm

comp.lang.forth gets a few posts per day, but "interesting" is debatable.

Comp.sys.apple2 is active.

But "only" 30 years old. net.micro.apple (1983-1986) was reorganized to comp.sys.apple (1986-1990) which was reorganized to comp.sys.apple2.

comp.arch (1986-) easily has 10 times as much present day activity.

I did say active. Posts were made today.

How active is another topic.

There are contributors from then still active now too.

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