• anlumo@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    No, back in the 90s, ISPs had local clones of the entire Usenet subscribers could access directly.

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      Which always bewildered me whenever my dad would tell me to “search usenet” whenever I couldn’t find something. He got into the 'net early-ish, the first time I became aware of it was around 2004, it was already closed (no public registrations) by then.