20 May
2010
20 May
'10
6:36 p.m.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Randy Dawson <rdawson16 at hotmail.com> wrote:
No kidding. When I lived in Florida, I was lucky enough to be able to
get news via Nova University. When I was in Southern CA, I used some
other provider to get netnews. I still get a thrill if I go into
Google's news interface and search for "md386". Up pops a few
postings and the UUCP maps for my home machine (which was running
Xenix at the time and Coherent at another point).
Mark
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 17:38:37 -0400
From: curt at atarimuseum.com
To:
Subject: Re: Usenet's home shuts down today ? The Register
Wow... well I hope somebody is going down their to save and salvage
everything that is left and preserve any original remnants.
Curt
Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/20/usenet_duke_server/
Before the internet was available to us normal folks, (80s and before) we got all
our code from the uuunet guys in Falls Church, VA. ?They used to sell
tapes of the usenet archives.
I have not looked much, but I suspect its all still out there. ?I
thought I also remember somebody else later bought the archive and had
it for sale. ?The stuff I remember buying was comp.graphics, comp.c and
so on. ?Goodies in there were raytracers like POV Ray, Rayshade.
I also remember Austin Code Works was a good vendor selling source
distributions from usenet. ?I got TeX from them, lexx, yacc PCP-IP.
It was expensive on a hobby budget, but the only way unless you knew
somebody at the university that had a connection.
Randy