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  • Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000News Groups

    From SugarBug@3883@sugar.bug to alt.2600,alt.folklore.computers on Sunday, May 19, 2024 08:56:26
    From Newsgroup: alt.2600

    Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406863

    I love treasure hunting. Sometimes Usenet feels like the dusty old thrift store of the Internet. If you have ever found a thrift store with rows of shelves chock full of books, old compact discs, and ancient cassette tapes, then you know what I mean.

    Narkive: https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/jqTCQePo/are-these-the-only-3-known-updated-usenet-archives-left#post12
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  • From nospam@nospam@example.net to alt.2600,alt.folklore.computers on Sunday, May 19, 2024 23:00:42
    From Newsgroup: alt.2600



    On Sun, 19 May 2024, SugarBug wrote:

    Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406863

    I love treasure hunting. Sometimes Usenet feels like the dusty old thrift store of the Internet. If you have ever found a thrift store with rows of shelves chock full of books, old compact discs, and ancient cassette tapes, then you know what I mean.

    Narkive: https://news.admin.peering.narkive.com/jqTCQePo/are-these-the-only-3-known-updated-usenet-archives-left#post12



    Fascinating how little space text messages take. Only a few TBs for
    decades of messages from all over the world!

    When does the archive stop?

    It sounds to me as a nice open source project. Try and gather all
    messages, clean it up, and throw it online and make it searchable, while updating it with current text only newsgroups.

    On the other hand, someone else must have already thought of the idea, I'm sure.
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  • From Marco Moock@mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de to alt.2600,alt.folklore.computers on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 12:20:07
    From Newsgroup: alt.2600

    Am 19.05.2024 schrieb SugarBug <3883@sugar.bug>:

    I love treasure hunting. Sometimes Usenet feels like the dusty old
    thrift store of the Internet. If you have ever found a thrift store
    with rows of shelves chock full of books, old compact discs, and
    ancient cassette tapes, then you know what I mean.

    It is everytime interesting to find out stuff there about people you
    know, technology and other stuff.

    --- Synchronet 3.20a-Win32 NewsLink 1.114