olduse.net(olduse.net)
137 pointsby tosh7 days ago7 comments
  • dang7 days ago
    Related:

    Olduse.net: a 30-year delayed Usenet feed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12401026 - Aug 2016 (33 comments)

    Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8780135 - Dec 2014 (26 comments)

    Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2622250 - June 2011 (54 comments)

    also

    Old usenet maps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14625302 - June 2017 (22 comments)

  • fifticon7 days ago
    by jove, old green terminal fonts make me nostalgic. So much Moria played, so much NN news-reading.
  • ggm7 days ago
    The funny thing for me is that I reposted pre-grand-reorganising USENET to a mail list 2-3 years after the disaster, as a stream of consciousness thing and it felt "old" at the time. People emoting about mod.* and the structural semiotics of names, all kinds of things.

    Old is as old does. I think Henry Spenser's utzoo postings would be interesting to see.

  • throwing_away7 days ago
    But does it include binaries?
    • genewitch7 days ago
      this is a valid - if cheeky - question. There is probably a fair amount of software lost to the sands of time that would be fun to discover on an old NNTP server.
      • throwing_away7 days ago
        Valid and cheeky is squarely where I'm aiming, so thank you ;)
      • reddalo7 days ago
        It's sad that the Usenet archive by Google doesn't have old binaries at all, and neither do all those "modern" services which are primarly used for piracy.

        I wonder how much software has been lost forever.

        • genewitch7 days ago
          there are people like me that try to save everything forever, so less lost than would otherwise be assumed. Hopefully.
  • pogue7 days ago
    What is this? An NNTP service of some sort?
    • krelian7 days ago
      An NNTP server that allows you to experience old Usenet with a 40 year delay. You'd get each day's messages as if they were published today.
    • nickthegreek7 days ago
      > olduse.net was posting the first 10 years of archived usenet articles to a news server, replaying usenet as it happened 30 years earlier. It also had a web interface with an interactive news reader, allowing you to access the news server via the web instead of using nntp.
    • yapyap7 days ago
      looks like an NNTP service that’ll publish your message after a certain amount of time depending on the port
  • BirAdam7 days ago
    I love the design of the site. Vivid memories of my Zenith Z-89
  • WD-427 days ago
    Extremely fun to browse for a while, thank you.