I have been wondering why #usenet has been on my mind lately. Not because of all the things pirates do there... but for how it works. And it finally struck me: Usenet's fundamentals of spreading bits of information across multiple servers reminds me a lot of how Nostr relays work.

They arent related, at all, as far as I know. But it just kinda stuck me and I kinda like to think of Nostr as the modern usenet... somewhat, kind of.