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As other commenters have pointed out Usenet was a serious of collaborating servers each independently owned & run so there was nothign to 'acquire'. What happen
by davidwritesbugs 4y ago
As other commenters have pointed out Usenet was a serious of collaborating servers each independently owned & run so there was nothign to 'acquire'. What happened, from memory, was that a sysop made a backup of his Usenet feed and Google got that tape. My GoogleFu is to weak to find a link to the story.
I ran the Newzbin Usenet search engine so it's a topic of some nostalgia for me.
- throwaway892238 4y agoThanks for Newzbin! NZBs were a revelation. I had to build a RAID array to keep all the crap I downloaded :)
- s0l1dsnak3123 4y agoThank you for Newzbin, I've used it many times over the years!
- hackinthebochs 4y agoSo you're the one that killed usenet for filesharing. (Binaries being unfriendly to download probably kept the DMCA folks at bay. NZBs changed that.)
- davidwritesbugs 4y agoTHe MPA would have come for your groups at some point, regardless of NZBs. I don't know if we made it a more immediate problem or not, and in the meantime very many people found NZBs less of a pain.
- jtode 4y agoA pleasure to finally meet you lol
- mike_d 4y ago> What happened, from memory, was that a sysop made a backup of his Usenet feed and Google got that tape Google bought Dejanews, a service that operated a usenet2web gateway. It became Google Groups. http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2001/02/google-acquires-usenet-discussion.html http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2001/02/google-acquires-usen...
- davidwritesbugs 4y agoTHis was what I was thinking of.. https://www.salon.com/2002/01/08/saving_usenet/ https://www.salon.com/2002/01/08/saving_usenet/