Web-based Usenet

Usenet, a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system, can be accessed through Web browsers as well as through dedicated news clients.

The user must obtain a news server account and a newsgroup reader.

Normally, they will have a thumbnail format for their images and videos to make browsing much faster and simpler.

Google Groups was the most popular and by far the largest Web-based Usenet archive (consisting of over 700 million posts dating from as early as 1981[1]) until its advanced search functionality became nonfunctional in February 2015.

As of May 2017, Easynews[3] appears to be the only regularly updated and reliable way to access newsgroups through a Web browser.