The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be 50 years ago
Long before Facebook existed, or even before the Internet, there was Usenet. Usenet was the first social network. Now, with Google Groups abandoning Usenet, this oldest of all social networks is doomed to disappear. These days, Usenet's content is almost entirely spam, but in its day, Usenet was everything that Twitter and Reddit would become...
