The original post: /r/usenet by /u/r093rp0llack on 2024-12-24 13:39:35.

So Eir (formerly Eircom and “Telecom Éireann”) is one of Ireland’s telecommunications providers (ISP). For a long time, they were a state-owned monoply and hence the ONLY ISP in Ireland.

Anyway, at one time Eircom customers were provided with Usenet access at news1.eircom.net

I am currently an Eir customer, so I decided to find out if they had a news sever running still (Why pay for Usenet access when I can get it for free?). The tech support agent that got my query didn’t know what Usenet was, so he decided to contact the engineering team, who also did not know what Usenet is.

I find it harlious that the engineering team, who are the team responsible for maintaining systems and services, are all so young that they have no idea what Usenet is.

In an attempt to understand what Usenet is, he searched the internet and came to the understanding that Usenet “is a website like Reddit.”.

Anecdote complete.