For those too young to remember, Usenet was an internet service outside of the World Wide Web. It was a regular service offered by ISPs and people accessed it through dedicated apps or email programs like Outlook. In 2008 at the time of the birth of social media and the end of dial up services, the major ISPs like Verizon and AT&T decided to drop their Usenet service. Google picked it up as a web based version but from 2008 onwards the text based groups were left to the trolls and bots.
On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 11:03 AM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > And like so much of the proto-Internet, the trolls and bots had taken over > Usenet. > > Mark Jeffries > [email protected] > > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 8:29 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Usenet preceded some people's being born, so to them it's >> bordering-on-irrelevant. Still, the older content is being preserved for >> purposes of historical record, much like old CBS shows preserve that >> aperture-inside-Eye-inside-Eye network ID... B >> >> Doug Eastick, Dec 25th: >> >> >> Google Groups ending support for Usenet - Google Groups Help >> <https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538?visit_id=638391543153409178-693751509&p=usenet&rd=1> >> >> >> just noticed the above as i checked a usenet group using GG web interface. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/99a75f0b-c603-478f-880b-5f29d1de684an%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/99a75f0b-c603-478f-880b-5f29d1de684an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi9PC%3DepeSDZYhUP1Qy1uca8oaurQixBLMaO7xXY3ScHUA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi9PC%3DepeSDZYhUP1Qy1uca8oaurQixBLMaO7xXY3ScHUA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGbNOTJwChpNcWKHnwr7iQnqG3%3DoPWogoEJBTB%3DNxuHzQ%40mail.gmail.com.
