27 May
2005
27 May
'05
3:02 p.m.
Hence I'm just curious as to whether anyone else
has managed
to collect an archive together with the emphasis being on the
historical value of it
Pre-Google, Pre-Deja, we have:
1. Many private/university archives of parts of Usenet. These are
most of Google's earliest Usenet archives. And they are acknowledged
by Google.
2. In the mid-90's there was some controversy because there were a
couple of companies selling CD's with Usenet archives on them. These
were not old (at the time) archives, they were mostly content from the
early 90's on up.
3. Mailing lists that were gatewayed to/from Usenet. Some of these
have pretty solid archives going back to the late 70's. Arguably
these are mostly mailing-list items and not Usenet items so they shouldn't
count.
4. At one time Altavista had a pretty good archive of Usenet. (Back
when Altavista was King of the Search Engines!) Did Deja buy this
archive as part of its initial offering, or what?
Tim.