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)

by jove, old green terminal fonts make me nostalgic. So much Moria played, so much NN news-reading.

You will enjoy cool retro term! https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

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.

But does it include binaries?

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.

Valid and cheeky is squarely where I'm aiming, so thank you ;)

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.

there are people like me that try to save everything forever, so less lost than would otherwise be assumed. Hopefully.

What is this? An NNTP service of some sort?

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.

> 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.

I love the design of the site. Vivid memories of my Zenith Z-89

Extremely fun to browse for a while, thank you.