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There is a really great data dump for this: The USENET Archive of UTZOO Tapes. 7GB of plain text ASCII spanning the decade pre-1991, totaling more than 2M messa
by ArtWomb 8y ago
There is a really great data dump for this: The USENET Archive of UTZOO Tapes. 7GB of plain text ASCII spanning the decade pre-1991, totaling more than 2M messages.
https://ianmilligan.ca/2013/03/06/exploring-the-usenet-archive-early-thoughts/ https://ianmilligan.ca/2013/03/06/exploring-the-usenet-archi...
Similar archives exist for Gopherspace and FTP binary collections. But as far as I know, there isn't really a great web frontend, indexed and searchable, to individual documents dated before 1994.
As an example, original mosaic http browser post from Marc Andreessen ;)
"Here is is, World!"
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.infosystems.www.users/Nmb-TiGzqeI/KIMncl8OIZoJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.infosystems.www.u...
- joseph8th 8y agoI love that it was "so lame" and "useless" that Netscape Mosaic didn't have a print option in v0.9beta for Windows. Because obviously your gonna wanna print! Ah how times have changed. I don't even own a printer.
- dingaling 8y agoI had several lever-arch folders of printed-out websites. Dial-up in the UK was too expensive to 'look it up again when I need it' so it was committed to hard-copy. I particularly remember NASA aerospace projects and the script of Aliens! Also common was dialling-in to download e-mail and Usenet and then going offline again to read them and compile responses which were cached until the next dial-in. Communication was much more async back then. I never really got into IRC as that required 'wasting phone time', in the UK we were charged by the minute just like a local phone call. So you made a plan, connected and went as fast as possible. This was assisted with printed Web Directory books which had URLs and summaries of the websites' contents!