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Umm according to Wikipedia, Deja News was turning into a shopping site, going bankrupt and shutting down the Usenet archive. So Google came in and saved it. h
by thrashh 3y ago
Umm according to Wikipedia, Deja News was turning into a shopping site, going bankrupt and shutting down the Usenet archive.
So Google came in and saved it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Deja_News https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Deja_News
- jghn 3y agoYeah. At the time I remember the sentiment being more "woah, this is amazing" and less "boo, corporate overlords taking over".
- anigbrowl 3y agoYeah, and then they let it sink as they have with so many other cool things they built.
- bentcorner 3y agoIt certainly smacks of being someone's promo project where they moved on to other things after the migration and the project fizzled out without leadership.
- senko 3y agoGoogle was pretty much considered the "good guys" back then. It only started with AdWords a year earlier and was barely breaking even at the time. Loong way from "corporate overlords".