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Off-topic, but can someone explain to me how mailing lists and threads from 1994 end up on Google Groups? I never really understood what goes on there...
by wfunction 9y ago
Off-topic, but can someone explain to me how mailing lists and threads from 1994 end up on Google Groups? I never really understood what goes on there...
- wiredfool 9y agoThey bought DejaNews, who grabbed a bunch of old net.news archives from various places. They then shoehorned it into the Groups interface.
- avian 9y agoNot mailing lists. These are Usenet posts. Years ago Google bought a service that was archiving the Usenet network and integrated their data into Google Groups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet