I met my first girlfriend on Usenet back in the mid-90s. She sent me a mixtape I still have and her writing Bush(x) next to some of the Bush songs confused me f

I met my first girlfriend on Usenet back in the mid-90s. She sent me a mixtape I still have and her writing Bush(x) next to some of the Bush songs confused me for many years. Lots of college-aged people were around Usenet for help, advice and just listen to me. Same goes for IRC. I don't know if I'd be here if it wasn't for the online mentorship of slightly older strangers keeping me going until I found IRL friends and graduated from the internet. Anyhow, Google should release the original DejaNews archive to the public minus whatever posts people have told them to remove over the years. I've been told it arrived there on a handful of DVDs, so it's not exactly a lot of data in 2024.