9 [CABAL HISTORY] Early 2001 - Google acquires Deja (and other) USENET archives, forms Google Groups, ruins USENET on purpose. I wonder why... (privacyinternational.org) posted 2 years ago by 335K 2 years ago by 335K +9 / -0 Google buys Deja News' Usenet archive The first example of internet users being blindsided by the retention of information they had thought was ephemeral was Usenet, a worldwide collection of discussion groups ("newsgroups") created in 1979. 1 comment share 1 comment share save hide report block hide replies
Hindsight is a bitch. R.I.P.