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Google Expands Usenet Archive to 20 Years

Posted by chrisd on from the alt.pave.the.earth-archive dept.

Paul Boutin writes "The Ghost of Usenet Postings Past has returned to haunt many more of us: Google just announced the expansion of their Usenet archive back to May 3, 1981."Check out the past on Groups.google.com

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  1. Yes! by Skyshadow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Awright! Just think of all the old porn that awaits my eager stare! No sleep for me tonight.

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    1. Re:Yes! by jackal! · · Score: 5, Funny
      Awright! Just think of all the old porn that awaits my eager stare!

      Yeah, all the porn in ASCII...

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  2. That darn Google... by edashofy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think ANYBODY should be held liable for Usenet postings they made when they were 14 years old...it's like having naked baby pictures of yourself stapled to your forehead when you walk around...

    On the other hand, you can now go back and see who REALLY won all those flame wars you were involved in :)

  3. Hmmmmm.... by GoRK · · Score: 5, Funny

    So that means that this is currently THE first post!

  4. What the Timeline Missed... by jackal! · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a neat timeline, but what it's missing that I'd love to see:

    First Spam

    First Metoo

    First Flamewar

    First MLM/chain letter

    You know, the really important historical stuff.

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  5. Wow by jpatters · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I can browse all of my anti-Mac rantings from the comfort of my Powerbook G4.

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  6. Oldest one by Legion303 · · Score: 4, Funny
    From: bl3003@arpa
    Subject: Booya!
    Date: Jan 01, 1981
    Newsgroups: alt.flame,arpanet.general

    First Post!

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  7. Re:Disaster waiting to happen by IntelliTubbie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just imagine if someone creates alt.history.usenet_archive that would contain the archive of all usenet messages (including alt.history.usenet_archive, (including alt.history.usenet_archive, (including alt.history.usenet_archive, (including alt.history.usenet_archive ...)))) ...

    There's an easy solution: just create an archive of all archives that do not contain themselves. Oh wait ... stupid set theory.

    Cheers,
    IT

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  8. St. Peter Effect by mindpixel · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think this should be called the St. Peter Effect... you see, cuz when we go to heaven, St. Peter will Google us, and pull back everything we have ever thought, said or did - ranked by relevance or date... Just be glad that mere mortals are limited to 20 years of newsgroup postings!

    BTW: If you search on my name and find stuff about LSD, it was another Chris McKinstry.

  9. Hey, Linus - by wirefarm · · Score: 5, Funny

    The card I have is a VG-2000 by DFI
    with 512kB video ram, supposed to be able to do almost anything (well
    1024x768 16 colours anyway). The problem is - it doesn't.

    Hey, buddy, quit bitching and just use it in VGA mode, like everybody else.
    If you don't like it, why don't you just go write your own drivers? While you're at it, why don't you go write your own Operating System???
    (Heh heh... Sure told him a thing-or-two...)

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  10. Spoiler Alert! by fastdecade · · Score: 5, Funny
    It should be safe to read these now :-)
  11. A bunch of collective dumb-asses by Sabalon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man...I was just looking at some of my old posts (which I don't even remember how I made them).

    I think we can have a collective opinion that when we were younger, we were a bunch of dumbasses.