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The older I get the more I feel like Usenet was/is a lost opportunity. With a few improvements it could have taken the place of Facebook (not the original connecting with friends version Facebook) and Reddit. It could have been a great option for local business promotion and news distribution, and the same segmentation into groups would map almost perfectly into subreddits. It is decentralized, multiple clients where available and you could segment into as narrow topics as you'd like.

That's a great resource. Something similar for HN: http://remembersaurus.com/askhn.html And the 'thread of threads': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158116 Both are quite dated, is there a more update version of either?

I really miss USENET of the good ol' days (pre-AOL escaping its garden) .. it was one of the most vivid and energising resources on the Internet. I guess its still out there, ticking away, but I haven't personally fired up an nntp reader in years. I would, though, if there were to be some sort of USENET revival. Actually I guess there is no reason not to .. but last time I checked, it seemed pretty dead. These days…

This is just an assortment of a few dozen individual articles. I'm missing the point.