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Summary: In the early 1990s, facing increased pressure from the commercial sector who
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the earliest internet companies
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taken off; the place where
great deal of internet communication took place was Usenet,
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created in 1980, which was what one might think of as
proto-Reddit; with
variety Of "newsgroups"
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dedicated to different subjects that users could post to
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decentralized service based on the Network News Transfer Protocol. Users needed
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the newsgroups they followed. In early 1994,
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