[dagw]

Usenet never went anywhere...You should try it :))

I virtually lived on Usenet between roughly 1996-2006 and hung around a bit for a couple more years after that. I can assure you that Usenet definitely went somewhere. Even by 2005 Usenet felt pretty deserted by everybody other than the warez scene.

I will concede however that I haven't logged onto an NNTP server for probably a decade, so perhaps Usenet has had a resurgence without anyone telling me.