Obscure and interesting findings in Usenet Archives

As @jhi posted a link to a resurrection of Henry Spencer’s UTZOO Usenet archive, I thought we might amuse ourselves and each other by looking for interesting posts and threads…

I ended up with over 2,104,828 flat text files in 56,988 folders, which was the entire copy of Henry Spencer’s Usenet archive

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Bumping this old thread because there’s a new resurrection re-collection of old usenet posts. It’s a paid service with a free tier so you can search and get a couple of pages of results without any bother:
usenet-rewind.com

via Ernie Smith on the fediverse

(Edit to add: @jhi’s link was posted to the thread
“I have been running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero for ~5 years.”
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