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Before that it was 20 years of BBS content that is sadly mostly lost.

• ghaff 3y ago
  And Usenet is pretty fragmentary as well and, even among what was preserved, I don't know how accessible what archives there are as they went via Dejanews and then Google Groups. Of course, there's also a huge amount of information about companies, products, news, etc. that was largely never in electronic form and--where it didn't just get tossed in the trash in the wake of some corporate buyout--is in the stacks of some library someplace.
  • iggldiggl 3y ago
    > I don't know how accessible what archives there are as they went via Dejanews and then Google Groups. And unfortunately Google has starting blocking some groups because of too much spam (that to some extent probably was enabled by Google itself in the first place), and unfortunately that means that the archives of those groups (pre-dating the current spam deluge) are inaccessible, too.