USENET from 1981 to present on google

From: David C. Jenner <djenner_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed Dec 12 17:37:34 2001

I found a post of mine from 1984, asking for leads on a
UUCP package to run under VMS. We found a couple, and ran
UUCP for several years until we were hooked up to BITNET
and ARPANET.

Dave

Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> --- Jim Davis <jpdavis_at_gorge.net> wrote:
> > Google claims to have recovered the USENET archives from 1981 to
> > present.
> > Makes for some really fun reading. Birth of the web, linux, all the old
> > machines we love.
> > Jim Davis.
>
> I've been perusing it... I can't find any of my own posting prior to
> the Great Renaming (net.micro.amiga, etc.) In fact, I can see in
> one of the traffic groups my upstream feed telling the other UUCP
> admins that we were off the air (and I was out of a job ;-) but I that's
> one of the oldest messages with my name in it. None of my _actual_
> posts appears until late 1987.
>
> Guess even with 7+E08 messages, there's still gaps.
>
> -ethan

-- 
David C. Jenner
djenner_at_earthlink.net
Received on Wed Dec 12 2001 - 17:37:34 GMT

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