rudy0826 - 3:30 pm on May 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

I actually used to work for Deja.com which is were these groups came from. back then in 1999 deja had 2 parts the usenet and a product comparison portal similar to cnet or mysimon.. we started the porduct review portal because the usenet wasnt bringing in enough money from the banner ads but we soon realized the usenet traffic dwarfed that of the product comparison portal so we tried to interlink btw the usenet and the portal but at the end of the day none of it brought in enough cash to feed our spending...I left with nothing... google bought the usenet and half.com bought the comparison portal...there is no evidence today of the portal only some parts of it on circuitcity.com But to defend this usenet, its much more than just a usenet...when I left in 1999 it was 3 terabytes of data and that may not be alot now but it was alot back then plus this was all text...there is so much info there on the history of the internet dating back as far as 1995. Companies like HP referred some of their customers to the usenet for tech support.. this is a great internet resource and just like search drives traffic