Wow! It's amazing to see all my old flame-wars when I was at Olivetti ATC (their R&D office) on-line again.
2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read
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#12I'm a bit surprised that a zip archive of only 2.1 million posts was almost 2GB. I wonder what a treemap of group size looks like.
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#13Interesting that COMP.LANG.LISP has posts dating last month. I guess the network isn't dead. I wonder if there are groups with interesting recent activity.
I think the binaries groups still get quite a bit of traffic :-)
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#14Does anyone know if the old RelayNet (aka RIME) and FidoNet stuff ever made into these kinds of archives?
I believe these were gatewayed with Usenet (so you could use NNTP to read and write), though they weren't actually part of Usenet proper.
I was an active participant back in the 1990s, but it disappeared when the web took over.
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#15Wasn't this on Deja News that Google bought and integrated into Google groups? How is this archive different?
It really seems to me that archive.org, or some similar organisation, should petition Google to donate their Usenet archive, which they clearly don't care about, to them. Or possibly buy it off them.
It's a long shot since it would require Google to actually do something with a dataset they clearly don't care about, but they could get some good corporate PR points almost for free.
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#16Does anyone know if the old RelayNet (aka RIME) and FidoNet stuff ever made into these kinds of archives? I believe these were gatewayed with Usenet (so you could use NNTP to read and write), though they weren't actually part of Usenet proper. I was an active participant back in the 1990s, but it disappeared when the web took over.
There is some RIME and FidoNet stuff on textfiles.org
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#17Looks like alt got cut off; the alt.tv.* hierarchy isn't there (stops at 10 pages).
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#18Can someone explain Usenet to me? As I understand it, it's not a website. Is it something outside of the WWW? Does it have its own protocol or does it use HTTP? Do you need a dedicated client software for it, similar to IRC? How do/did you register to it? Is it paid? Who hosts it?
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#19Can someone explain Usenet to me? As I understand it, it's not a website. Is it something outside of the WWW? Does it have its own protocol or does it use HTTP? Do you need a dedicated client software for it, similar to IRC? How do/did you register to it? Is it paid? Who hosts it?
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#20I and a number of people I know are grateful to Henry Spencer for not saving certain groups from the early days. On groups like soc.singles, we were young, lonely, indiscreet and posted using our real names, because it was a private club then (mid-80s).