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As the song goes, "We haven't seen that spirit here since 1969." Okay, so maybe it's more like 1989, a few years before Eternal September[1] in 1993, when the
by Paul-Craft 3y ago
As the song goes, "We haven't seen that spirit here since 1969." Okay, so maybe it's more like 1989, a few years before Eternal September[1] in 1993, when the deluge started for real.
But, I'll tell you what we're not losing when Google drops support for USENET: the archives. And, IMO, that's where the real value in Google Groups[2] lies, and has for decades.
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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
[2]: Née DejaNews -- oh, how we miss you!
- mulmen 3y agoI'm having trouble parsing this. Are there archives elsewhere?
- Paul-Craft 3y agoYes. Go to `groups.google.com`, switch "My Groups" to "All groups of messages" and type in the name of your favorite newsgroup in the search field. You should see links to newsgroups pop up. The archives are contained at those links. You can search them reasonably well, but browsing them is tough, because of the 2 decades worth of spam that's accumulated in them.
- mulmen 3y agoI mean other than on Google. e: I misunderstood and thought the Google archives were going away in 2024.