USENET did, obviously, have a lot of garbage but it was manageable, contained boggling amounts of valuable info and nobody (yet) "owned" it. Now, with The Great

USENET did, obviously, have a lot of garbage but it was manageable, contained boggling amounts of valuable info and nobody (yet) "owned" it. Now, with The Great Enshittification of the Internet nearly complete, USENET's loss is just that much more painful because it could have been prevented.