As noted in my last post, I am looking at Usenet, I am also going back to IRC, there seems to be some life still in IRC, on freenode, I found my old stomping grounds of wplug, that seems to be dead, but the Linux chat room still seems to be alive, and along with that there is a vape chat room, been sitting in there for a bit.
Yes I am going back and starting to relive the text based internet. I know I have access to gopher and I should start looking to see if that is still alive.