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Ask HN: Large Usenet archives? (not Google)
Does anyone know if there are any large Usenet archives apart from Google Groups?
I've been able to find some individual newsgroup archives, and some relatively short-term archives of a large number of groups, but nothing near the scale of Google Groups.
And yet, with the size of cheap hard drive storage available now, large Usenet archives should be quite feasable (at least for the non-binary groups).
- johng 15y agoGiganews is up to 1000 days retention -- including binary groups. It's massive. They are the largest I know of.
- gnosis 15y agoThat's still a relatively short-term archive compared to Google Groups, which has archives back to 1981.
- wmf 15y agoEveryone who had old archives gave them to Google around 2001, and people didn't bother to archive Usenet after that because they knew Google had it covered.
- hollerith 15y agoHow sad.
- ig1 15y agoMicrosoft Research had one, I don't know if they still do. Also back in the 90s you could buy usenet snapshots on CD, presumably those CDs are still floating around somewhere.
- turbojerry 15y agoYou can find an old text archive that was collected between February of 1981 and June of 1991 here- http://www.archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive http://www.archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive