DejaNews (bought by Google and reskinned as Google Groups) showed up in the 90s and made everyone realize that everything we wrote would be searchable forever. Trumpet Winsock scripts made it possible to offer Internet access and BBSes faded out. Gopher was powered by indexed textfiles, but hosting on the Internet was very traceable back then, and often at a university where tolerances for anarchism were low. Geocities picked up the “post text files” banner for a while but eventually collapsed as blogs and web forums took up the writing output of most.