"David Kaye" wrote in message
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On Oct 1, 8:47 am, (G) wrote:

On these newsgroups, I get the impression the young people do not use,
or do not like to use USENET. Perhaps they are somewhere else.
It was not like this10 to 15 years ago. And, there is a lot
of frustrated old people around here.

10 to 15 years ago there weren't Web-based forums. In fact, 15 years
ago there wasn't a Web as we know it. Google Groups may have been the
salvation of Usenet.


Sure there were. I was using web based forums at least as far back as 1983,
with my Commodore 64 and a 300 baud acoustic modem (even the crude graphics
of the era took forever to load. The bad old days of CompuSlave et al when
net time was charged by the minute (about two dollars IIRC). Even then, the
forums were very popular, taking over the job that was mostly done by BBS's.