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In addition to accessing Google groups, registered users can also set up mailing list archives for e-mail lists that are hosted elsewhere. [2] Google Groups became operational in February 2001, following Google's acquisition of Deja's Usenet archive. Deja News had been operational since March 1995.
Google Groups was the most popular and by far the largest Web-based Usenet archive (consisting of over 700 million posts dating from as early as 1981 [1]) until its advanced search functionality became nonfunctional in February 2015. [2] It discontinued Usenet operation in 2024.
An explanatory page adds: [102] In addition, Google’s Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) server and associated peering will no longer be available, meaning Google will not support serving new Usenet content or exchanging content with other NNTP servers.
On 12 February 2001, Google acquired the usenet discussion group archives from Deja.com and turned it into their Google Groups service. [2] They allow users to search old discussions with Google's search technology, while still allowing users to post to the mailing lists.
This is the most extensive newsgroup hierarchy outside of the Big 8. Examples include: alt.atheism — discusses atheism; alt.binaries.slack — artwork created by and for the Church of the SubGenius.
The front page still says 'some things are very broken' and links to a blog page that was last updated in September 2016." [ 6 ] In January 2020, the server hosting the e-mail to news service, still operated by Ingebrigtsen, needed to be moved following the sale of a company Ingebrigtsen had co-founded. [ 7 ]
Later in 1981, Spencer acquired a Usenet feed from Duke University, and brought "utzoo" online; the earliest public archives of Usenet date from May 1981 as a result. The small size of Usenet in its youthful days, and Spencer's early involvement, made him a well-recognised participant; this is commemorated in Vernor Vinge's 1992 novel A Fire ...
A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are discussion groups and are not devoted to publishing news. Newsgroups are technically distinct from, but functionally similar to, discussion forums on the World Wide Web.