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>What happened? In this specific case? Only the nerds used it, and most people didn't even know it existed. We could have educated them about it, but making a
by tomjen3 8y ago
>What happened?
In this specific case? Only the nerds used it, and most people didn't even know it existed. We could have educated them about it, but making a forum and sending out an email was easier.
- kazinator 8y agoNo understanding of what happened with Usenet is complete without the important aspect of how it came to be used for sharing massive amounts of binaries, most of them copyright infringing.
- u801e 8y agoEven so, it wasn't until a lot of major ISPs got rid of their usenet servers that it was more of an effort to access. Verizon had theirs up to about 2008 or so, yet binaries were commonplace well before that.
- u801e 8y ago> Only the nerds used it That's not true. Many people who didn't have a technical background were posting on usenet and were in and out of various IRC channels.