Comment by hsjqllzlfkf

This isn't trolling, genuine question from someone who joined the internet after Usenet was already gone:

I keep seeing people wanting to build distributed this and distributed that. According to Wikipedia, usenet was already distributed. Why did it die?

Edit: follow-up question, what about freenet? Are they the same thing? Are they different, compatible, implementations of the same protocol? Are they incompatible but share some properties? Etc