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> All you needed to do was search the group list for relevant terms. All the Usenet clients supported searching the group list

- Group list

- Usenet client

Most people had no clue what that stuff was.

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That’s another reason why Usenet was better. There was an IQ test to see if you were above 90 just to get going with it.

And Usenet died, to no small degree, because it was heavily populated by snobs.

It never died, it reach a low point of participation about a decade ago, and has slowly been gaining steam again ever since. Some portions of Usenet have always stayed active even through the tough times. As social media dies due to various reasons, people are coming back. Have been for years.

> It never died

interesting, given that all your references to it are in the past tense

GP of the reply chain was referring to how at a point in the past Usenet was allegedly more difficult to access. That's why some of my responses were in the past tense - I was disagreeing about how, back then, it was more difficult to access. Hence the use of the past tense. All in perfectly proper English.

bla bla bla, Usenet died because the "high IQ" (according to you) snobs on it were (are?) annoying as fuck posting these twisted explanations instead of accepting they were wrong about something

There's still time to switch your career path. You don't have to do this.

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