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A comment on Usenet Archive (1981 – 1991).

Re:Usenet Archive (1981 – 1991) by JohnFen on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:36PM (#35457708)
Boy, do I miss usenet news. It was a bright, shining star of the internet. Nothing comparable rose to replace it after Google killed it.
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Re:Usenet Archive (1981 – 1991) by kolinko on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:01PM (#35458920)
Google was a part of it. But spam, and a lack of proper moderation was really the issue.

A bigger issue was that Google buried all the archives from the Usenet with it.

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Re:Usenet Archive (1981 – 1991) by JohnFen on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:41PM (#35459376)
Spam was a constant issue, yes, like it is today. But you did at least have reasonable tools to minimize the impact of it.

> A bigger issue was that Google buried all the archives from the Usenet with it.

Indeed. Killing usenet was bad. Burying the archives was unforgivable.

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