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This just showed up in my inbox, and well … all my posts in the Barenaked Ladies newsgroup in 1999 and 2000 are still there.
This is one of the most in-depth revivals of Usenet archives I’ve seen. It’s actually kind of scary how much this resurfaces.
@ernie Wow, it's got messages from Magic: the Gathering auctions where I was placing bids in 1995 jfc
@liquor_american it really makes you realize how little of a crap we gave about security and safety back then
I think folks who grew up a decade later than I did are used to all their wrinkles appearing online and just kind of living with that. So this is kind of a new feeling for me, as my teenage years were experienced partly on Usenet, somewhere I presumed disappeared after like a month.
About that …
Yes, I know Google Groups resurfaced a lot of Usenet posts publicly. But this is just so much more in depth than that. It’s the difference between resurfacing a little content and bringing a library back to life. The search capabilities are way better on this than any free resource I’ve tried.
Please nobody create a site called CompleteIRCLogs dot com, my brain will be unable to handle that
@ernie I wish I had logs from the olden days of irc. So many places that I used to frequent and usernames have been lost to me cuz I never logged anything.
A decade ago I started logging my irc sessions but I don't really go back to them. I miss what I miss. But I'd really like to see those late 90s logs (if they existed) and all their cringe (I bet there's plenty).
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@ernie What a share, Thanks.
Found so much of my early stuff I thought was lost, including what is likely one of my very 1st posts on 1/15/1994 (about the new Star Trek Micro Machines).
My god I had such a cheesy sig line... And with a spelling error to boot...