Yes, you are right, in 2020 Stackoverflow and other forums have taken over. Usenet is no longer relevant (not 100% true, but you get the point). Web-based forums are the places where one learns now. Also, the documentation of different software, libraries and tools has improved a lot.
I wrote that blog-post back in 2014, that was 6 years ago. I learned programming from 2005-2008 and all of that was because of the help I got from the mentioned newsgroups. There used to be a few known names on USENET and everyone knew them and ask them for help. I really loved USENET. These days comp.lang.c is mostly filled with spam and comp.object died sometime ago. Life is about change.
I wrote that blog-post back in 2014, that was 6 years ago. I learned programming from 2005-2008 and all of that was because of the help I got from the mentioned newsgroups. There used to be a few known names on USENET and everyone knew them and ask them for help. I really loved USENET. These days comp.lang.c is mostly filled with spam and comp.object died sometime ago. Life is about change.