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Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups (neon.nightbulb.net)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by firefly@neon.nightbulb.net to c/usenet@lemmy.ml
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Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406863

I love treasure hunting. Sometimes Usenet feels like the dusty old thrift store of the Internet. If you have ever found a thrift store with rows of shelves chock full of books, old compact discs, and ancient cassette tapes, then you know what I mean.

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USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 year ago by rek2@lemmy.ml to c/usenet@lemmy.ml
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Created comp.lang.go (www.big-8.org)
submitted 1 year ago by rek2@lemmy.ml to c/usenet@lemmy.ml
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Active groups? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by Borgzilla@lemmy.ca to c/usenet@lemmy.ml
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As the title says, I am looking for active newsgroups. I found alt.fan.usenet and alt.usenet.newbies

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would anyone have the bandwidth to make a copy of the wiki available on /r/usenet? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by the_d0c_is_in@lemmy.ml to c/usenet@lemmy.ml
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There are troves of interesting information on that wiki, including the maps. I'd think that would be amazing to keep alive.

Does anyone even know how (and from where) they scrape data to keep it up to date?

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Welcome to /c/usenet (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 years ago by krolden@lemmy.ml to c/usenet@lemmy.ml
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Hey! Hopefully this becomes as or more active than other usenet discussion boards around the net.