{"id":143,"date":"2009-12-21T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2009-12-21T06:16:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:16:30","slug":"usenet-circa-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/usenet-circa-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Usenet, Circa 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hop in your Delorean, set the clock to 2004, charge up the flux capacitor, and zip back in time. The usenet world has changed dramatically in the last 5 years. Here&#8217;s a quick rundown of how much the usenet industry has evolved in the last 5 years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2004 the industry standard for retention was around 20-24 days, a minute number compared to today&#8217;s nearly 500 days.<\/li>\n<li>In 2004 most providers allowed for a maximum of 4-8 connections. Today you can get at least 20 connections.<\/li>\n<li>In 2004, NewsgroupDirect was a new kid on the block, just getting started. Today, NewsgroupDirect is the most innovative provider, offering the best experience and service for our customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any predictions on what the industry will look like 5 years from now?<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-153\" title=\"Delorean\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/delorean1.jpg\" alt=\"Delorean\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hop in your Delorean, set the clock to 2004, charge up the flux capacitor, and zip back in time. The usenet world has changed dramatically in the last 5 years. Here&#8217;s a quick rundown of how much the usenet industry has evolved in the last 5 years. In 2004 the industry standard for retention was&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/usenet-circa-2004\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsgroupdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}