Yeah, but the major upgrades for things like telnet and ftp were adding appropriate encryption layers and improved authentication to include things like certificates. IRC shoehorned those into the connections awkwardly but it's still not often mandatory and registration is painful.

Also usenet is still very popular but mostly used for file sharing.

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kristopolous 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes. usenet, however, used to be social media. It was like text-only reddit.

	▲	hollowonepl 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don’t believe it was or continually is limited to text only, but I do believe we had netiquette back then which helped to reconsider spamming internet with media and other decorators, only to have it all forgotten 72h later
	▲	cowlevel 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Still is, but a bit empty. https://eternal-september.org/

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movsx 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What about the registration you find so painful? It takes a single command to register a nick, if that's what you mean.

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dijit 3 hours ago | parent [-]

In his defence, its a single command, if you know the command

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terminalbraid 3 hours ago | parent [-]

This, which is not uniform across servers, and has more work if you want to do certificate-based auth. Additionally getting a nick cloak is good opsec and also extremely not uniform.

	▲	itintheory 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The entire premise of cloaks as optional seems like broken UX to me. I'd like to see a new version make your connections details private by default.