I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)

Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by ggm on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:26AM (#36859913)

Google offered to uplift the groups, and somewhat choked the model to death. I think Brad Templeton and others gave them tapes. (A good thing at the time) or maybe an early crate of disc drives got shared.

A bunch of pre 90s data caches got uplifted and then silently seemed to vanish. I was a box admin in the UK in the early 80s and my honey-danber database records were online for a while in the maps Usenet group. They're not responding to search any more.

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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by masklinn on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:59AM (#36860116)

Google purchased the ailing Deja News and its archive, and the Spencer archives got donated to it as well with posts back to the 80s.

But within a few years Google stopped caring about it entirely.

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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by ggm on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:14AM (#36860235)

See? The best way to get good answers is to give bad ones and get corrected.

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