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Cake day: February 19th, 2021
  • DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.mltoTechnology@beehaw.org•Email is the oldest Federated service.
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    1 year ago

    Google bought the company Deja and got their software, which turned into Google groups, and also got their Usenet archive.

    They didn’t buy Usenet itself (which would be like buying “email”), and it is still very much alive, but it has changed, and most people have moved their preferred place to have discussions elsewhere.

    Note: I was going to say “would be like buying a cloud”, but Google Cloud is a thing, so…yeah.