> NNTP. [...] I guess the reason it never took off was that the backend mindshare and software ecosystem was poor. Oh, but it did take off. It was the most pop

> NNTP. [...] I guess the reason it never took off was that the backend mindshare and software ecosystem was poor. Oh, but it did take off. It was the most popular on-line group discussion place twenty years ago. NNTP (or rather Usenet) decline started around the time that web forums popped up in the internets.