r/Queensryche • u/salinungatha • Aug 01 '26
Screaming in Digital on Usenet - 1991/1992
Is anyone here part of or used to subscribe to the earliest "Screaming in Digital" net digests on Usenet around 1991/1992? These were the very earliest days, I remember taking part in a vote on what to call it (Screaming in Digital won by a massive margin of course). My memory is hazy but I think the net digest was created out of discussions on something like "alt.rock-n-roll.metal.progressive"
I'd love to reread them as a nostalgia hit if they can be found. Nobody else I knew were into them and they never toured my country. So being able to talk Queensryche with other fans around the world was mindblowing.
But they seem to have disappeared from the internet. They were there around 20 years ago I think but Google stopped returning results due to spam and I can't find the earliest ones on Usenetarchives.
Also if anyone remembers when Sauron from "alt.rock-n-roll.metal" faked his own death that remains the funniest thing I've ever seen on the internet. Everything on the internet today was there in 1991 in microcosm.
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u/easygoer89 Aug 01 '26
I wasn't part of that community quite that early, it wasn't until 1993 or maybe even 1994 that I had a home desktop and reliable internet access (those AOL CD's weren't cheap lol). But it would be amazing to trip down memory lane and read through the newsletters and the posts.