Now known as GoogleGroups
Deja News was a feed from
UseNet. It provided extensive searching capabilities, and also, with free registration, allowed you to post messages to the newsgroups.
- It was at www.dejanews.com/ , and then just /www.deja.com/ (now redirects to google groups)
- Until March 1999
- was one of the starting points when researching anything. Back then they still had their focus on archiving UseNet.
- From 1999 to 2001
- the Deja Archive was going downhill. A predictable and miserably stupid e-commerce thing that crammed their pages full of JigglingBaloney and inspired them to neglect their own legacy database.