[giancarlostoro]

Its a shame, Google used to host Usenet groups and the other day I clicked a link of something old that Google was supposed to be hosting, and got literally nothing back.

Dear Google, you could have added ads to those old results to justify keeping them up, but you failed because you're more interested in locking things down than actually building up an open web.

Now there's decades worth of old usenet content probably gone, my understanding is a lot of it was donated by old usenet providers that shut down or just couldnt keep hosting really old but historic texts for whatever reason.

[6510]

The added irony is that the oldest threads are the most interesting.

[giancarlostoro]

Yeah they really are. I would have paid Google $3 a month just for them to keep them online on the odd chance I want to read them. Shit Google, make a usenet service for me to subscribe to, it'll be the only thing you'll have with me giving you money.