Warp schrieb:

>> In the end I just gave up, the groups I frequented died out as people moved 
>> to web-based forums
> 
>   Why do people do that?

I'd guess it's primarily not so much an issue of people actively 
/moving/ from usenet to web-based forums, but rather /new/ folks never 
moving to usenet in the first place (heck, who of the newest generation 
of internet users /knows/ about usenet anyway?), and nobody replenishing 
the user base of usenet. So it's "Fading away".

>   This trend of everything going to WWW just sucks. Most internet users
> don't actually know that there's something *else* than WWW out there.

Exactly. But for them it doesn't suck, because they don't know better.

There's also some benefit to it, too: You don't need different 
/software/ to access it. All you need is your web browser.

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