> 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 usen

> 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...