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"I convinced Google to allow me to give their USENET archives to the Internet Archive." Thank you.

a3_nm 9y ago
I also thought this was interesting, but I don't see what this is referring to. Google has bought the DejaNews archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups and I haven't find any reference of the fact that they would have given it to Internet Archive, neither on the wikipedia article nor on places where it could have been mentioned like https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php/Usenet https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php/Usenet or https://archive.org/details/usenet https://archive.org/details/usenet. Does anyone know what this implies?
- petercooper 9y ago
  I'd also be keen to know. I had assumed it was https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical .. which is pretty good, but I just discovered comp.lang.javascript only goes back to 2001 there, so my posts from the 90s are not to be found :) Other groups do go back to the mid 90s, however.
- aplorbust 9y ago
  https://archive.is/PUk3 https://archive.is/PUk3 <--- This posting describes the different collections that Google acquired or received. Is there irony in that one needs archive.is (archive.today) to access it? Maybe someone can find the original still accessible? http://web.archive.org/web/20110110080509/http://www.skrenta.com:80/rt/utzoo-usenet/ http://web.archive.org/web/20110110080509/http://www.skrenta... <--- This is the collection I am most interested in. 1981-1991. Thankfully, one does not need Google to get it.
  - zandorg 9y ago
    UT Zoo is indexed on my usenet site: http://www.dejadejadeja.com/ http://www.dejadejadeja.com/
- joeyh 9y ago
  https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical appears to be from Google Groups. Its description is lacking, but it contains headers like: X-Google-Thread: fca3818fe8,c285ccf93b10248a X-Google-Attributes: gidfca3818fe8,public,usenet

I also thought this was interesting, but I don't see what this is referring to. Google has bought the DejaNews archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups and I haven't find any reference of the fact that they would have given it to Internet Archive, neither on the wikipedia article nor on places where it could have been mentioned like https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php/Usenet https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php/Usenet or https://archive.org/details/usenet https://archive.org/details/usenet. Does anyone know what this implies?

petercooper 9y ago
I'd also be keen to know. I had assumed it was https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical .. which is pretty good, but I just discovered comp.lang.javascript only goes back to 2001 there, so my posts from the 90s are not to be found :) Other groups do go back to the mid 90s, however.
aplorbust 9y ago
https://archive.is/PUk3 https://archive.is/PUk3 <--- This posting describes the different collections that Google acquired or received. Is there irony in that one needs archive.is (archive.today) to access it? Maybe someone can find the original still accessible? http://web.archive.org/web/20110110080509/http://www.skrenta.com:80/rt/utzoo-usenet/ http://web.archive.org/web/20110110080509/http://www.skrenta... <--- This is the collection I am most interested in. 1981-1991. Thankfully, one does not need Google to get it.
- zandorg 9y ago
  UT Zoo is indexed on my usenet site: http://www.dejadejadeja.com/ http://www.dejadejadeja.com/
joeyh 9y ago
https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical appears to be from Google Groups. Its description is lacking, but it contains headers like: X-Google-Thread: fca3818fe8,c285ccf93b10248a X-Google-Attributes: gidfca3818fe8,public,usenet