{"id":556,"date":"2004-05-14T09:55:04","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T12:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=556"},"modified":"2004-05-14T09:55:04","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T12:55:04","slug":"groups-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Groups-Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>V<\/span>ia Mernit&#8217;s (and everywhere around), I noticed that Google seems to be adding improvements to their Usenet interface <a href=\"http:\/\/groups-beta.google.com\/\"><em>Groups<\/em><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>No rocket-science here or the killer-app, but actually Google&#8217;s next step to battle Microsoft. Microsoft has been <a href=\"http:\/\/netscan.research.microsoft.com\/Static\/Default.asp?\">eyeing<\/a> UseNet for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/news\/article\/0,aid,111820,00.asp\">while<\/a>. UseNet has also always been a proven community builder, way before there were &#8216;blogs&#8217;. Developers hung out, asked and answered questions.  Groupies too. In my younger days, I even hung out with a band of other funny people.\n<\/p>\n<p>Killer-App? UseNet has always been <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.rfc-editor.org\/in-notes\/rfc977.txt\">around<\/a>.  Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=Brian+Kantor&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;hl=en&#038;btnG=Google+Search&#038;meta=\">this guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Mernit&#8217;s (and everywhere around), I noticed that Google seems to be adding improvements to their Usenet interface Groups. No rocket-science here or the killer-app, but actually Google&#8217;s next step to battle Microsoft. Microsoft has been eyeing UseNet for a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=556\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}