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by wtbob 4339 days ago
On the contrary, Usenet was very fast when used as intended, from a local news feed. Indeed, it'd work even were the network down.

Web forums took off because users wanted to use browsers for everything, and ad-supported had lower barriers to use than subscription-based.

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People also started downloading binaries in earnest, which made ISPs want to get rid of the NNTP server.