On Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 07:14:17 UTC+11, shannon...@gmail.com wrote:
> usenet is dead. 
> 
> Where did I read that? That place must have died, too? 
> 
> Parting question: Does anyone know of any website like flij in its active days? (Just looked for something like it on Mastodon, but...) 
> 
> Maybe I'll check back in a few months. Or years? (Unless I'm dead, too.)

I find the "Deep in Japan" Facebook group slightly similar - gaijin sharing stories, etc.

I miss flij, slj, etc. They were a major part of my interaction with Japan and Japanese in that distant time.

Anyone here remember the weekend get-together in Tokyo in early 2001? ISTR we went to Yokohama and Odaiba, and had dinner together in Roppongi.

Jim