alt.america
Discussions about America, broadly construed.
An alt-hierarchy catch-all for American identity and culture — looser and rowdier than the soc.* equivalents, covering everything from regional stereotypes to constitutional arguments conducted at alt.* volume.
Its unmoderated nature made it a mirror of 1990s–2000s American online discourse in the wild.
Reading alt.america today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — alt.america (coverage varies by group and era).
- Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.