A brief history of Usenet...

[sbisson]

...from Google.

I'll always have a soft spot for Usenet. It's where I began my online life, back in (shock horror) 1986...

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[narenek.livejournal.com]

There was an article about it, linked to from /. a while ago.

Seems they went around asking people for any old backups of news that they had from days of yore and various people gave them the information.