anyone know the history behind this IP redirect to groups ?
www.deja.com. |
Yep.
In the decades long before Google Groups there was (and still is!) Usenet. A site called DejaNews (www.deja.com) kept a searchable archive of all the Usenet messages. Google bought Deja and from that came Google Groups. |
oh yeah..my brain kinda slipped on tis round!
thks Reto!! |
From what I remember, this was their first acqusition and that had launched Google to be viewed favorably among geeks. |
and right now, groups.google.com has been giving me 502 for several hours. |
It was for me to ZZ but its back now. |