@Edent #Usenet​/NNTP, apart from some non-destructive updates, still is Usenet/​#NNTP. The web was meant to be the union of documents in the internet, no matter which protocol or text format. The real browsers were able to access more than only HTTP(S). The web has turned into a single protocol party. The diversity has been restricted to document types. Current browsers are divisive (even the smolnet ones, but that's a different rant...), old browsers were inclusive. And lots of security disasters were added under the hood of bling-bling. So Usenet/NNTP did not improve much, but did not lose either. The web is not any more what it was meant to be, gained bling-bling and dangers and loses on the original goals of connecting everything. So who did fail? nntp usenet