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If Google offered its first public services in '98, where did these posts originate from? Did Google merge an existing message board system into Groups when it
by enntwo 17y ago
If Google offered its first public services in '98, where did these posts originate from? Did Google merge an existing message board system into Groups when it was released?
- jonknee 17y agoUsenet. They bought Dejanews and have archives back to the early 80s.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoDejanews had been archiving usenet as far back as the mid-90s but they (now google) actually have usenet archives donated by others dating back to 1981.
- swombat 17y agoYes. Groups mirrored the newsgroups which have existed for a number of decades.
- donaq 17y agoGoogle's servers achieved sentience in 2002, traveled back in time and saved all the previous Usenet threads.