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Comment by jevgeni

5 years ago

There were higher barriers to entry into those groups in the 90s.

This is true, technology certainly has progressed and lowered the barrier to entry for this and many other things, but my point is that the internet is nothing more than a social network.

Also, you might be overestimating how high the barrier to entry was. There were over 200,000 usenet groups at the peak.