I am really upset there is no good way of searching archives of usenet. It is a fascinating piece of history. I used to have a pretty good screen scraper that

I am really upset there is no good way of searching archives of usenet. It is a fascinating piece of history. I used to have a pretty good screen scraper that would search queries on the Google Groups Usenet archives. Inspired by images like this http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_clones?file=Doom_clone_vs_first_person_shooter.png http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_clones?file=Doom_clone_vs_fi... I was able to dredge some pretty amazing historic articles. Some examples: First impressions of the GNU manifesto: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.arts.animation/nKfkfLmfzM4 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.arts.animation/n... Furst impressions of SNES https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.video/gt3TN5_EnPY https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.video/gt3T... First impressions of PERL https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sources.d/QPt288ya0QI https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sources.d/QPt28... First impressions of Eminem https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.music.hip-hop/oLAW4Mlt8Sk https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.music.hip-hop/oL... Steve jobs leaves in 85 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.micro.mac/93SYtBQKEQw https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.micro.mac/93SYtB... First impressions of Doom: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/331R_W597JA https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.ibm.pc.game... People pissed at apple in 84 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.flame/e4-wxFKyUuE https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.flame/e4-wxFKyUu... WWW first announced: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.next.announce/avWAjISncfw https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.next.announ...