#January6th had a successful predecessor in France in 1934. Ho do I know?

The brillant #RachelMaddow has a new podcast out #DejaNews

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-presents-deja-news/episode-1-riot-gates-rcna88781

@soatok @burrito @AstralPegasus98 We’ve been here before with #Usenet, but the #DejaNews search engine committed suicide by #DotComBoom #VentureCapital and then #Google used its corpse to help build #GoogleGroups https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mjgardner/109436565119591460

@mjgardner Wow! I totally hadn't thought of #DejaNews in a really super long time.

Epilogue: In 2001 #Google bought the #DejaNews #Usenet archive and folded it into #GoogleGroups, but less than a decade later Groups was alternating between usability-destroying tweaks and utter neglect. People still use Groups, but IMHO Deja News should have a gravestone on @codyogden ’s https://killedbygoogle.com

Cyberstalking Web 1.0 figures of yore: #SteveMadere of #DejaNews, the search engine founded in 1995 that transformed #Usenet from an ephemeral federation of topic-based notes into a rich library of knowledge. Until it tried to pivot into the #ecommerce headwinds of the #DotComBoom and cratered in 2001.

#LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-madere-1715b3
#Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevemadere

@jnoxon Pour one out for #DejaNews and #Google's horrible stewardship of it as Google Groups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Google_Groups

#usenet

@grant
This reminds me of the early days of the Internet when #Usenet was the place where people shared their thoughts online. Like the Fediverse, Usenet was a network of servers exchanging posts between themselves.
One service called #DejaNews sprung up to index every post in every Usenet group with a world scope. This predated Google by a few years. DejaNews eventually was bought by Google

https://www.fastusenet.org/blog/what-is-dejanews-where-did-it-go.html