Why newsgroups ,groups and message boards are of past taking over my facebook...

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Rob

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...and my space now also blogs? Quote When ISP was dial-up, many companies offered newsgroups as an attraction. So, about the timeframe you mentioned the newsgroups basically became porno portals after the mommies of the USA discovered the internet. Bandwidth to the newsgroups became a problem. Today, there are portals to newsgroups, but the public, free-access portals block binary downloads. Irrespective of the puritan attempts, the newsgroups are pretty much useless without search capabilities, the blocking screws everything up. Google bought the naming rights to newgroups. Or, you can subscribe to DSL-speed Newsgroups today. Mostly, the subscriptions share files back and forth. So, it won't be long before DSL newsgroups go the way of dial-up newsgroups. Quote

What do you mean by newsgroups became porno portals and are blocked for searching .
 
When newsgroups where the new new thing, the alt.sex.* were probably the most read. There was an alt.sex.* for any sexual preference you might have (and many more you would never even think of).
Many, if not most of the posts were binary ( or so I've been told, never looked myself ;)

I would have guessed that they became porno portals after the daddies of the USA discovered the internet, not the mommies. But I could be wrong.

It wasn't so much that they were blocked form searching, just that the weren't very searchable. Many posts were a vague title, and a binary. Not much there to search on.
 
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