Relevant content and other interesting people. Look, I loved Usenet back in 1994, it was one of my first great Internet obsessions. But it effectively died in

Relevant content and other interesting people. Look, I loved Usenet back in 1994, it was one of my first great Internet obsessions. But it effectively died in terms of relevance before the turn of the century. The majority simply preferred web forums. Usenet was always a pain to use, posts would routinely get mangled or dropped entirely, and the multiple user-driven quoting conventions and wonky clients made any long-lived threaded discussion impossible.