Because Google made a popular interace to USENET called Google Groups, then adde...

		aaron_m04 on June 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: I miss the old internet Because Google made a popular interace to USENET called Google Groups, then added a non-USENET component and discontinued the USENET part. By doing so, a lot of people ended up on the non-USENET part. A secondary factor was spam getting out of control IIRC.