Comment And there I was... (Score 1) 253
... still thinking that Usenet is primarily a text based medium.
But that's seems to be too much 1990s thinking these days, unfortunately. Discussion mainly happens in web forums. Yet, if you search for a particular piece of information, Google Groups search can be so much than having to trudge through gazillions of EBay "search results" when using web search.
I think, it's very unfortunate, that Usenet is primarily seen as a distribution platform for (illegal) binary content.
But that's seems to be too much 1990s thinking these days, unfortunately. Discussion mainly happens in web forums. Yet, if you search for a particular piece of information, Google Groups search can be so much than having to trudge through gazillions of EBay "search results" when using web search.
I think, it's very unfortunate, that Usenet is primarily seen as a distribution platform for (illegal) binary content.
