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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Breathe life into an almost-dead format and worked hard to retrieve as much post history as possible? Yeah, I remember what Google did to Usenet. Do you?

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

I remember it filling groups with non-text posts which could not be read by Usenet clients, among other things.