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The Decline Of Usenet

By Mark Shapiro

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Published: 30Jan2012
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I am a Judgment Broker who writes almost too much. This article is my opinion on how Usenet has declined.

Usenet is older than the web (www). I've connected to Usenet servers nearly daily, for about twenty years. In the last days of 2011, I pulled the plug, and gave Usenet up "cold turkey".

Usenet has 2 groups, binary and text. The text part is an incredible collection of discussion groups on nearly every topic. The discussions are "plain text", that may be viewed on a large number of Usenet viewing programs, and also many e-mail applications.

The best benefit of the text part of Usenet, is the way it's often the best (the least frustrating and fastest) way to have your simple questions answered. When you wish to learn what is going on, or to read opinions about anything, you may find intelligent answers fast.

During the previous decades, there were many questions which I only found answers for, with Usenet. Usenet is nearly always unfiltered, which means you may also find some folks who would rather correct, insult, or scold you; than be helpful.

The Usenet binary sections have (or had) music, pictures, program files, videos, operating systems, and many software programs. The Usenet binary sections are coded, so it looks like nonsense.

Usenet binary group encoding must have a separate converter application, to change it into "binary" files which computers can comprehend. The converter applications are either cheap or free, and not hard to find.

Because of these advantages, I enjoyed Usenet for more than twenty years. In the last 19 years or so, the only section of the Usenet binary groups I connected to was the musical sections.

Usenet's binary musical sections were wonderful. The coded musical files were arranged by decades from about the 1920s to today. Historically, on Usenet, you could locate music that couldn't be found or bought anywhere else.

As an example, consider the 1925 song "Show Me The Way To Go Home" by the Golden Gate Orchestra band.

This song, may be located with a web search. However, you wouldn't think to look for that song, except for this article, or if you were a long-time Usenet user and downloaded the series of "drunk 1920's songs" someone uploaded 14 years ago. That music series came from their private archive, that is and was, not found anywhere else.

In the past, Usenet access was bundled for free on internet accounts. In the past, even Comcast, previously included Usenet access.

Each year, more Internet Access providers are eliminating Usenet access. Many search services are indexing Usenet less or not at all, and more people have to now pay $9-$16 per month, to connect with Usenet servers.

Each year, as the group of Usenet subscribers decline, less quality content being posted or uploaded.

Each year, the worth of a Usenet account declines. As online forums and blogs become more popular, there is less of a reason to continue spending money on a Usenet account.

I'll miss my Usenet account, however my Usenet viewer application retains many great conversations that I saved inside it, which I may refer to years from now. Thank you Usenet, however I can no longer justify paying for you.

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