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ISPs in the 1990s often provided Usenet newsgroups. I had EarthLink dialup and had Usenet groups


They did up till around 2010 IIRC. The smaller ISPs had their own feeds, but eventually outsourced them. I remember the Path header containing the server name of the ISPs own NNTP server, but later it changed to supernews.

ISPs also provided email accounts and I believe some provided a server directory for you to host your own website.




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