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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by ZiiS on Thursday February 13, 2020 @08:57AM (#22317730)
IE3 came bundled with "Microsoft Internet Mail and News" later "Outlook Express" with full NNTP support.
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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by smhenderson on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:13AM (#22317832)
Not sure what version they're talking about on this page[0] but it's dated 1994.Netscape had NNTP support as far back as then apparently...

[0] http://home.mcom.com/home/guided_tour/news.html

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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by somesortofsystm on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:21AM (#22317886)
'94 is mid-web ignition, imho.

The point is, the web ate all the other info-sharing protocols, except for mail (which does look worse than ever, but still works) .. and as a result its near-impossible for a new user to easily share their content from their own computer to the rest of the world ..

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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by u801e on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:44AM (#22318590)
> The point is, the web ate all the other info-sharing protocols

I wouldn't say that really happened until after sometime in 2015.

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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by karatestomp on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:39AM (#22318540)
> except for mail

My greatest hope for an open social network that people actually use and truly threatens Facebook & friends still rests on something built on top of email. A social-client that uses the email system as its transport layer, basically. It even already has calendaring for events! Heh.

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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by somesortofsystm on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:00AM (#22317751)
>IE3

Yeah, exactly. By that time, the web hype knob was already at max level.

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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by jaywalk on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:51AM (#22318643)
Disagree. The Internet was still mostly a curiosity when IE3 was around, but people were becoming aware of it. I'd say things really took off in the IE5 timeframe.
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