Google will deploy their new tools, which will be powerful, simple, and quickly adopted. It's also incredible to me that people are so short-term freaked out. We're on such an Internet time treadmill that a resource being somewhat unavailable for a few weeks makes us go crazy. There was a good piece in today's New York Times about how laid-off dotcommers were getting engaged, marrying, travelling, enjoying themselves. Folks, I think that's what life is, in part, about.
Work is good, but non-work is good, too.
But back to Google. They maintain a tight ship, with a minimum number of employees. Hopefully, this will translate into financial success as well, but from what I know, I believe it will. Usenet History as I Remember It Usenet itself dates back to the early days of the Internet, and comprises at this point, tens of thousands of topic-oriented groups, mostly unmoderated, that exist through cooperation of hundreds of thousand of servers worldwide. In the early days, the fact that news servers could daisy chain information one to the next helped preserve bandwidth and machine time.