2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read

Post by jozefjarosciak » Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 3:11 AM UTC

KyleSanderson wrote: post #84

jozefjarosciak wrote: post #72

Folks, I am the guy behind this project. A friend of mine mentioned he saw the site mentioned on hacker news, so I came to check it out. If you have any questions for me, don't hesitate to ask, as time permits (and two little boys), I'll do my best to answer them.

Nice work my friend. As many demo-scene groups were active on newsgroups before going very dark almost 30 years ago I'm curious if you also have a collection that you can contribute to this basic collection https://archive.org/details/scenenotices . There's lots of this stuff going on throughout the decades but you may be in a position to help preserve history / lineage on the entire environment.

Post by dang » Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 3:17 AM UTC

jozefjarosciak wrote: post #162

galaxyLogic wrote: post #160

Would it be fair to say that Reddit is the modern UseNet?

yes

Post by jozefjarosciak » Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 3:24 AM UTC

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #119

jozefjarosciak wrote: post #72

Folks, I am the guy behind this project. A friend of mine mentioned he saw the site mentioned on hacker news, so I came to check it out. If you have any questions for me, don't hesitate to ask, as time permits (and two little boys), I'll do my best to answer them.

I'm getting this: Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function real_escape_string() on null in /var/www/html/usenetarchives.com/3.vars.php:80 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/usenetarchives.com/1.header.php(190): include() #1 /var/www/html/usenetarchives.com/view.php(22): include_once('/var/www/html/u...') #2 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/usenetarchives.com/3.vars.php on line 80 Pretty consistently.

Post by CamperBob2 » Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 3:30 AM UTC

jozefjarosciak wrote: post #72

Folks, I am the guy behind this project. A friend of mine mentioned he saw the site mentioned on hacker news, so I came to check it out. If you have any questions for me, don't hesitate to ask, as time permits (and two little boys), I'll do my best to answer them.

Post by Sebb767 » Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 3:33 AM UTC

stevula wrote: post #144

throwaway89201 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are many words censored? To take a completely random example (I just took one with many asterisks) where it makes the post completely illegible: https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=soc.sexuality.gen... For an archive this is a big no-no. Respect the source material! Otherwise, thank you for the time spent doing this.

For future historians, the post is about the sex act known as the “dirty sanchez”.