Add Gopher to the stack too.<p>Gopher: Curated blog, sites, services and even news aggregators. No bloat, no JS, no waste. No ads. No clickbaits. Pure raw text.<p>gopher://magical.fish, gopher://1436.ninja and gopher://sdf.org as my main source/portalish gopher holes.<p>IRC: tech channels, sometimes news. Libera.chat it's my
main network. No bloat, too, you don't need an i3/Core2Duo
to talk to someone.<p>Usenet: techgroups, delayed help available. No need to be online 24/7. You can pull posts once a week and everything will be fine.<p>If you are a geek/nerd, you can code your own client on most programming languages in just two weeks. With something like TCL, Perl, Python or Ruby, a single week would be fine.<p>The opposite is different. An IRC server requires maintenance, and INN can be crazy difficult for Usenet, but
for Gopher it's dumb simple to set up both content and a server. And, yet, there are pubnixes and tildes oferring this even from SSH, for internal and federated use against other pubnixes. And it's amazing.