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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. Re:700 million messages! by Lunastorm · · Score: 3, Informative

    It doesn't have binary files on there. The only pr0n (why not just spell it as porn?) they have on there is erotic literature.

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  2. well, I just submitted this, soo.... by Anthony+Boyd · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since my article submission is doomed for rejection, let me at least post some of extra stuff I had mentioned. First, check out the monolithic kernel debate between Andy and Linus for yourself. Second, in my article submission about Google, I also mentioned that Alexa now archives the Web, too. Try their Internet Archive Wayback Machine. I found they had an archive of my old WEBsurf magazine from 1997. Hilarious.

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  3. Re:!mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko by Dahan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well the original kremvax (in the post you refer to) was an April Fool's joke... although when the USSR did get on the Internet years later, someone named a machine kremvax in tribute :)

  4. Re:ok, so how do we delete our posts? by dair · · Score: 4, Informative

    Read the FAQ, or use the Automatic Removal Tool.

    -dair

  5. I FOUND IT! by someone_took_my_nick · · Score: 4, Informative

    The famous post, i have seen it quoted so many times. So here it is in the flesh, posted by Linus Benedict Torvalds himself to comp.os.minix, 08:53:28 PST 5th October 2001. Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=8ed1169d0 b48c9b8&rnum=2

  6. X-No-Archive, my badge of honor by Fencepost · · Score: 3, Informative
    Hah, my claim to lasting online fame!

    I'm pretty sure I get to take the credit for that one - something like it would certainly have existed eventually, but this is the earliest discussion (by ~5 months) that even mentions anything like it, even if I did suggest it as X-NoArchive instead.

    I just wish I'd saved the original email as well.

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