USENET rises again?
As a programmer of over 30 years I still have never used Usenet and the reason is the barrier to entry. There is way too much friction.<p>You need a paid (!) subscription to a provider, potentially a subscription to an indexer, plus client software. All of this to access what is essentially a pure text forum.<p>Frankly I am not interested in jumping through hoops to access something which an "average person" would have no hope in hell of figuring out. Maybe that's part of the attraction, that only dedicated geeks will use it?