Google Groups
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service from Google that provides discussion groups
Key facts
- Developer
- Initial release
- February 12, 2001 ; 25 years ago ( 2001-02-12 )
- Type
- Internet forums , electronic mailing lists
- Website
- groups .google .com
- Repository
- github .com /googleworkspace
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Google Groups is a service from Google that provides discussion groups for people sharing common interests. Until February 2024, the Groups service also provided a gateway to Usenet newsgroups, both reading and posting to them, via a shared user interface. In addition to accessing Google Groups, registered users can also set up mailing list archives for e-mail lists that are hosted elsewhere.
Google Groups became operational in February 2001, following Google's acquisition of Deja's Usenet archive. Deja News had been operational since March 1995.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Google Groups” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.