Indeed. I forgot to mention what you just did. Usenet, despite its distributed/federated technical nature, which made the network extremely resilient, centralis

Indeed. I forgot to mention what you just did. Usenet, despite its distributed/federated technical nature, which made the network extremely resilient, centralised the way we searched for information on all sort of different topics. There was no need to use dozens of different protocols or visit different websites. I remember I had my newsgroups grouped by topic like programming, operating systems, science, sports and so on.