Check the net.* usenet groups. net is the one of the oldest usenet hierarchies, stretching back to the early 1980s, even before the great renaming.

> I wonder if anyone has anything from the early 80s. So much lost stuff.

Do people really want their ancient ramblings preserved indefinitely?

Hell no, I don’t. But it’s apparently impossible to stop people who are dedicated to indexing it at all costs. It took me five years to purge everything from before the Dejapocalypse. When we were using Fidonet back in the dialup era, it was a safe space. Plugging that into today’s internet is not safe and comes across as a violation of basic decency and respect for that space.

Indeed they/we do.