Posted by Harvey Van Sickle on 03/13/06 13:38

On 13 Mar 2006, Tin Man Alley wrote

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> AOL also dropped Usenet a year ago Feb. They also dropped it
> from their Compuserve brand as well at the same time. They
> never offered it from their Netscape brand. As such AOL'ers
> have had to locate free servers.
>
> Course, when the flood went to individual.net they wised up and
> started charging. That drove them to Google, but Google doesn't
> archive or carry most binary groups where you'd find videos and
> music.

Yabbut, individual.net never carried binaries, and the charge was
nominal.

I doubt if there was a huge swing that went AOL>individual.net>Google
-- more likely a direct move from AOL to Google.

--
Cheers,
Harvey

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