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They bought all the Usenet archives, I forget what company it was though, Dejanews?
by ChrisClark 3y ago
They bought all the Usenet archives, I forget what company it was though, Dejanews?
- magicalhippo 3y agoIndeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Deja_News https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Deja_News They still have one of my favorite posts: https://groups.google.com/g/sci.nanotech/c/QlsQPORilE8 https://groups.google.com/g/sci.nanotech/c/QlsQPORilE8
- pmarreck 3y agoI loved that post but got annoyed by all the grammar fails so I asked chatgpt4 to not only correct it but add some Douglas Adams flavor. Here is the result: https://gist.github.com/pmarreck/7092d28f3d9bf8dff99faa61d01f1176 https://gist.github.com/pmarreck/7092d28f3d9bf8dff99faa61d01...
- ern 3y agoThey bought Dejanews, but then some people donated their archives dating back to the 80's and they were integrated into Google News. https://web.archive.org/web/20011212191924/https://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html https://web.archive.org/web/20011212191924/https://www.googl...