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  • nobleach
    It's always fun to realize that USENET is still out there humming along. I still remember the thrill of working on my ancient Delphi/Object Pascal projects, and posting questions... waiting a few hours and checking back for responses. There was no "instant gratification" in those days. (I wasn't really using IRC).Opening this, and just searching "Delphi" I see that USENET never did get that "censorship" that I always assumed would eventually happen. The group names alone are truly unhinged. The Wild West is still.... wild!
  • cowmix
    Usenet is the main reason I started my own ISP in ’93: to have a reliable USENET feed. I loved it then, and I love it now.Even back then, though, it was always under attack by spammers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...
  • mghackerlady
    Usenet archives have helped me tremendously. For example, I'm looking for info on an old (non-xenix) Unix for the apple Lisa and it gave me a name (and after a bit of digging, an address) of someone who was trusted with the remaining stock after the company that made it went under
  • ChrisMarshallNY
    I am thrilled to announce that none of my old UseNet stuff seems to be there.<whew />
  • cmacleod4
    I had tried this site a year or two ago and found it unusable then, but it seems greatly improved now. I found posts as old as 1982, but recent coverage seems to stop around April 2022. Crucially, it supports full-text search on posts within a specific group - something which my own site https://newsgrouper.org cannot do. I find the user interface a little awkward, but it does now appear to be a really useful resource.
  • mfro
    Does anyone know if this is still the most comprehensive archive? I'd like to know if the owner found any of the missing 91-01 datasets or if they are available anywhere.
  • onion2k
    Usenet was great in the late 90s and early 2000s. I posted a lot, and met some great people. I got a job doing tech review of books about WAP and WML from my posts in a group about the forerunner to mobile internet, and another job with a company making intranet software from some posts about ASP and vbscript. I've no idea where I'd go for that sort of forum today.
  • myself248
    Huh, where is alt.2600?
  • Hizonner
    Fuck I sounded so fucking pompous in 1984. I mean fuck.
  • ChrisArchitect
    Other than the nicer UX, is this different than the large archive in groups.google.com ?
  • turblety
    It's so disappointing that we could have had Usenet, but instead have centralised/corporate/ad/spyware invested Facebook/Reddit/Xitter/Tiktok.
  • kseistrup
    /me is still running an NNTP server…
  • jmclnx
    The site wants my birthday, so I guess I will not be visiting it :(
  • OhMeadhbh
    weird, it seemed like the search index didn't go back past 2003. And then I tried a few more searches and found some hits. So I guess the index is a little spotty?But try a few search terms, you might find what you're looking for.
  • alexkkoo93
    how much coffee does my guy need lol. Can't read a page without a request for additional caffeine
  • ksherlock
    if nothing else, it's much more usable than the google news archives.
  • kls0e
    impressive, thank you.
  • greygood
    censored