Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: eric@fudge.uchicago.edu (Eric Fischer) Subject: Re: Historic Usenet archives (was Re: You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: fudge.uchicago.edu Message-ID: Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) X-Newsposter: Pnews 4.0-test51 (15 Jan 97) Organization: The University of Chicago References: <79s9m8$lqh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36D2005F.1D01@compuserve.com> <36D286AE.1451EB44@trailing-edge.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:32:05 GMT Lines: 15 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!128.174.5.49!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!not-for-mail Tim Shoppa wrote: > What amazes me is how this hoax faded into "collective memory" > with so few folks actually bothering to keep the original posting > in their archives. Speaking of historic Usenet archives... there is a *complete* archive of Usenet from May, 1981 through May, 1982 online at http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ The user interface isn't wonderful, but there's some neat stuff to be found there if you're willing to dig for it. eric ###### Message-ID: <36D6BC55.3EFCE7D6@trailing-edge.com> From: Tim Shoppa Organization: Trailing Edge Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.03Gold (X11; I; OpenVMS V7.0 DEC 3000 Model 300L) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Historic Usenet archives (was Re: You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")) References: <79s9m8$lqh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36D2005F.1D01@compuserve.com> <36D286AE.1451EB44@trailing-edge.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 13 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:23:01 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.232.144.27 X-Trace: audrey2.cais.com 920061120 198.232.144.27 (Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:32:00 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:32:00 EDT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer1.sprintlink.net!news-in-east1.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!in1.nntp.cais.net!199.0.216.204.MISMATCH!audrey2.cais.com!not-for-mail Eric Fischer wrote: > Speaking of historic Usenet archives... there is a *complete* archive > of Usenet from May, 1981 through May, 1982 online at > > http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ > > The user interface isn't wonderful, but there's some neat stuff to be > found there if you're willing to dig for it. Thank you, thank you, thank you for pointing this out, and thanks to the maintainers who put this resource together! Tim.