On Saturday, July 25, 2015 at 11:58:21 AM UTC-4, Cassandra Nancy Lea wrote:
> Is this the "child" of the old usenet group? My deepest memory of that group was when one of the founder's shared with the group (it was real small in 1996) his wife's losing battle with heart-failure and rejection of her donated heart.
> Anybody???

The old Usenet newsgroup still exists.

Google groups is kind of an echo of that. It received posts from
Usenet and puts them on its website groups.google.com; posts
to its website are propagated to the newsgroup.

Cindy Hamilton