Like an increasing number of Internet service providers who have shut down their newsgroup servers, Duke decided to retire its aging Usenet server based on low usage and rising costs.

Who killed Usenet?

(though still holds nothing on a local mailbox or news spool). Yes. Binaries killed Usenet. I ran a Freenix-competitive Usenet server for a popular ISP in the mid-1990s (by way of bona fides: we were competitive because I hacked a history lookup cache into INN, a concept we apparently co-invented alongside Netcom).

Does Usenet still exist?

Usenet newsgroups have been around since the dawn of the internet as the very first online social network. Newsgroups remain very much alive today and are active with many users because they provide for a more private and secure meeting ground than today's social media sites and forums.