Even 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

Even 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.