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Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’
(www.independent.co.uk)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Usenet started out as a forum-like system, with individual messages grouped into discussion threads (the protocol worked kind of like email, with messages indicating which other message they replied to, so that client software could build a tree for each group). That side of it was eventually killed off by lack of good moderation options or support for embedded media.