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Subject: Usenet Archives
From: Retro Guy
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 02:25 UTC
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From: retro.guy@rocksolidbbs.com (Retro Guy)
Newsgroups: rocksolid.shared.hacking
Subject: Usenet Archives
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 02:25:37 +0000
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I've been messing with some of the old Usenet archives from archive.org, and imported a few into an rslight install.

It's interesting to see some of the old posts. The oldest so far is 2003, but I plan to work on some older ones as well. The older posts need some header mods to work, but they import nicely.

I'm doing this just for fun, hopefully I can get some 90s stuff imported eventually.

Attached pic is an example.
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Retro Guy

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Subject: Re: Usenet Archives
From: Syber Shock
Newsgroups: rocksolid.shared.hacking
Organization: sybershock.com
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 06:33 UTC
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From: admin@sybershock.com (Syber Shock)
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Subject: Re: Usenet Archives
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On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 02:25:37 +0000
retro.guy@rocksolidbbs.com (Retro Guy) wrote:

> I've been messing with some of the old Usenet archives from
> archive.org, and imported a few into an rslight install.

Number Five is alive! More input!

Do you remember that?
> It's interesting to see some of the old posts. The oldest so far is
> 2003, but I plan to work on some older ones as well. The older posts
> need some header mods to work, but they import nicely.

Some show the path in the footer. And some of the path names are quirky.

> I'm doing this just for fun, hopefully I can get some 90s stuff
> imported eventually.

The 80s and 90s were the pinnacle of history. The explosion of plastic
toys, personal computing, BBS and Internet, boom boxes, break dancing,
endless cheesy movies, the CD and mp3, etc. Everything changed so fast
and people had a blast doing it.
> Attached pic is an example.

I was looking at those archives the other day. One had like 300+ GB of
messages. Just amazing!

You might like these:

Old Usenet : https://olduse.net/ (messages from 40 years ago)

Usenet Archives : https://usenetarchives.com/

The old net.* hierarchy from the early 1980s is very interesting. It
shows a very different culture than today.

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SugarBug | https://sybershock.com

Subject: Re: Usenet Archives
From: Retro Guy
Newsgroups: rocksolid.shared.hacking
Organization: Rocksolid Light
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:04 UTC
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From: retro.guy@rocksolidbbs.com (Retro Guy)
Newsgroups: rocksolid.shared.hacking
Subject: Re: Usenet Archives
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:04:44 +0000
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Syber Shock wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 02:25:37 +0000
> retro.guy@rocksolidbbs.com (Retro Guy) wrote:

>> I've been messing with some of the old Usenet archives from
>> archive.org, and imported a few into an rslight install.

> You might like these:

> Old Usenet : https://olduse.net/ (messages from 40 years ago)

> Usenet Archives : https://usenetarchives.com/

> The old net.* hierarchy from the early 1980s is very interesting. It
> shows a very different culture than today.

Nice! Thanks for the link. I was not aware of the site.

I've read some of the old posts in downloads from archive.org, but not
set up to read as groups like the above link.

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Retro Guy

Subject: Re: Usenet Archives
From: Anonymous
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:40 UTC
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Subject: Re: Usenet Archives
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I "trained" a 7 char length markov chain on old usenet archives a few years ago and I thought the generated output was quite amusing.

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Subject: Re: Usenet Archives
From: Syber Shock
Newsgroups: rocksolid.shared.hacking
Organization: sybershock.com
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:51 UTC
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From: admin@sybershock.com (Syber Shock)
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Subject: Re: Usenet Archives
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On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:04:44 +0000
retro.guy@rocksolidbbs.com (Retro Guy) wrote:

> Syber Shock wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 02:25:37 +0000
> > retro.guy@rocksolidbbs.com (Retro Guy) wrote:
>
> >> I've been messing with some of the old Usenet archives from
> >> archive.org, and imported a few into an rslight install.
>
> > You might like these:
>
> > Old Usenet : https://olduse.net/ (messages from 40 years ago)
>
> > Usenet Archives : https://usenetarchives.com/
>
> > The old net.* hierarchy from the early 1980s is very interesting. It
> > shows a very different culture than today.
>
> Nice! Thanks for the link. I was not aware of the site.
>
> I've read some of the old posts in downloads from archive.org, but not
> set up to read as groups like the above link.

Old Usenet may be cycling through a lot of old messages that
aren't available in public archives. It looks like he has some from the
first year of network news. You might ask him where he got his archives
from and compare some original net.* groups to see if there's a
difference from the ones at archive.org.

I've seen some very popular stuff disappear into the ether over the
decades. I'm glad some people are staying on top of the memory hole lid.

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SugarBug | https://sybershock.com

Subject: Re: Usenet Archives
From: Anonymous
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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 21:19 UTC
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Subject: Re: Usenet Archives
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All I can remember is beepers, payphone, bbs with credit card numbers, bank modem logins, hack pbx boxes. Oh there I forgot about Taxes Paid exchanges. Z-cash is based on that only they are using blockchain instead of hardware. Colombian flake from ether... It's good to be able.
I even remember the 70s to some extent.

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