Re:Usenet, the OG social network, rises again like a text-on...
by bsder on Thursday August 31, 2023 @06:35PM
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Yeah, people forget just how expensive both bandwidth and storage were in the late 1990s.
YouTube appeared in 2005 and was losing VAST amounts of money before Google bought them out. So, even in 2005, Usenet probably was still too expensive.
YouTube appeared in 2005 and was losing VAST amounts of money before Google bought them out. So, even in 2005, Usenet probably was still too expensive.