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  1. Usenet Archive from 1981

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the glimpse-into-history dept. · 217 comments
    Brandon Downey writes: "I found this site the other day, after giving up on Dejanews in disgust. (Does anyone think they don't suck these days?) Apparently, this site's owner has resurrected a tape archive of usenet posts from 1981-1982. The site appears courtesy of Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, and David Wiseman, who deserve credit for compiling this utterly intriguing selection of articles from our past."

    What's amazing is not so much how far we've come, but how visionary some of the people then were.

    Take this little gem, for instance: 

    Aallegra.131
net.general
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!mhtsa!allegra!rdg
Thu Nov 12 21:05:29 1981
democracy
wouldn't it be great to be able to use this electronic medium
to send notes to our government officials?  i never seem to write
postal letters or telegrams, but we all seem to find these
electric notes convenient enough to use often.  can you imagine
net.reagan with a few authentic replys?

The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright© 1981, 1996
Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.
    The archive gets better than this though -- there are articles about whether you can be prosecuted for profanity on usenet, copies of the TCP/IP digest volume 1, and even people asking for dice rolling programs for d&d on a vax! Check it out for yourself, it's well worth the read."