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The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Rapidcreek to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

and due to the nature of the protocol, companies hosting Usenet services didn't want to have to store all of that shit.

You can opt not to carry certain newsgroups, eg skipping alt.binaries.* would reduce your storage requirements drastically.

The fact of the matter is that people wanted something more "instant and accessible" than newsgroups that were synced overnight, and modern social media sprang from that desire.