Google has 20-year archive of Usenet available

[Viper GTS]

Google

Derived from:

Googol

Googol = 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

In other words a very, very large number.

Viper GTS

 

[MustPost]

from what ive read the google archives are seriosly messed up in comparison to the deja usenet archives.

 

[Mrburns2007]

That's why I started getting alot of emails in December......that post will never be deleted.

 

[IndyJaws]

<< Anybody besides me notice the generally excellent english that was used back then? I can't help but wonder why that is... Possibilities: 1) It was a result of the user-base (primarily education/technology institutions) 2) It was a result of superior education compared to what our students have today 3) People hadn't gotten used to the technology (ie it wasn't mainstream), & weren't sloppy yet 4) ??? That's the one thing that struck me. BTW, this is very cool. I can read stuff from before I was born. Viper GTS >>



Viper, I'd have to go with #1. Maybe a little bit of #3, as well. Good observation.

 

[Justin218]

<< Anybody besides me notice the generally excellent english that was used back then? I can't help but wonder why that is.. >>



I'd have to say it was the fact that only intelligent techie people were using usenet at the time.

 

[mithrandir2001]

While I knew that dejanews had much of their older stuff archived, I like google's interface better. I'm reading some of my old Usenet posts from 1994-1997. Scary stuff, really. Don't agree with some of what I say nor the way I say it...and that's not less than 4 years ago. It's a powerful feeling to touch the past like that.

 

[kranky]

gopunk, while Google did have some Usenet archives online, they only went back a few years until today when they put all the rest back online.