Ironic title, considering that Google actually could have saved the Usenet when they took the DejaNews archives and spun them into Google Groups. All they need

Ironic title, considering that Google actually could have saved the Usenet when they took the DejaNews archives and spun them into Google Groups. All they needed to do was invest in some basic spam filtering and they could have gotten on top of it. But they didn't. And the Usenet died in a sea of uncontested spam. The amazing thing is that nothing rose up to replace it. Everybody pretty much just gave up. Maybe a few communities limped on in the form of phpbb boards, but not in the same sense. Rec.climbing, alt.surfing, sci.space.tech, and all the comp.sci.programming groups pretty much just evaporated into nothingness. If somebody had come along and simply tried to keep it all going, I can't imagine it not working. But nobody did.