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Google acquired Deja News in 2001 which was an archive of USENET groups. It eventually became Google Groups.

• bluedino 13y ago
  They also greatly changed the way Deja News worked. Ruined it, if you asked people at the time.
  • petera 13y ago
    It still does, try slrn and nntp.
    • bluedino 13y ago
      The web interface part of it
      • dllthomas 13y ago
        Sure, but who uses that?
        • bluedino 13y ago
          Lots of people did, back when their ISP didn't offer newsgroup access. Plus it had a great search interface and some other features I don't remember.
          • dllthomas 13y ago
            Fair enough.
  • cromwellian 13y ago
    They also took great care in collecting old magnetic tapes of historical netnews history that would have long been lost to bit rot history and restored gaps in DejaNews's archive. Google deserves a lot of credit for this.
  • Marazan 13y ago
    DejaNews had ruined how DejaNews operated long before Google got its hands on it. By the end vast chunks of the archive had disappeared and then there was their bizarre and disastrous pivot into being a product recommendation/review site.