[linguaz]

Take a look here:

https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical

"This historical collection of Usenet spans more than 30 years and was given to us by a generous donor"

This group for example, from that collection:

    https://archive.org/download/usenet-comp/comp.emacs.mbox.zip
    [69.8M]

includes posts spanning from December 1988 to June 2013.

For some reason the mbox files have an odd format, with From lines that look like:

     From -8118066241627336028

I wrote some scripts to fix that so I could open the mbox files in Mutt.

BTW, found the above links on this page:

http://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2015/02/23/early_usenet_history_...

which has more info & links about historical usenet archives.

[llao]

Oh wow, does this mean that we have all of usenet texts? What stops people from providing a better interface than Google's then?