Milligan 2013 Exploring the USENET Archive: Early Thoughts Salon 2002 The geeks who saved Usenet Google’s restoration of digital history relied on a few heroes’ packrat mentality and a mountain of decaying mag tapes. WSJ 2011 How Usenet Was Saved It's just a pointer to the Salon article, but hey, it's the Wall Street Journal.

Wired 2009 Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles (UPDATED) Everybody: Google your Usenet interface is unusable Google: We'll fix it. They did. A bit, it's stil not great, try finding oldest article about anything you name. archive-org 2001 230-Yes, you have found the on-line copy of Henry Spencer's UTZOO NetNews 230-Archive. 230- 230-It is not in a very reasonable format but it is all here. There were 230-141 magtapes in the collection and, so far, we have them organized to 230-reflect these tapes. You will find two types of files in this 230-directory: 230 230- newsNNNfM.tgz the archives, tar'd and compressed 230-and newsNNNfM.toc the tables of contents (tar listings) 230- 230-where NNN is the tape number (from 001 to 141) 230-and M is the save set number (from 1 to 3 but usually 1). 230- 230-There is also a file called AllTOC.tgz which is a compressed tar archive 230-containing all of the .toc files. 230- 230-Please note that news001f1.tgz contains A news. All of the other tapes 230-contain B news. The news in this archive was collected between February 230-of 1981 and June of 1991. (The Scavenged.tgz file contains A news articles 230-which were "found" off the end of some of the earlier tapes.) 230- 230-Also below here is an 'info' directory which contains several useful 230-files with "overviews" of some of the archive information. Hopefully 230-the filenames will explain what they are. (I know, probably not.) 230- 230-The 'pc' directory contains Windows code which can unpack .tgz files. I 230-have also been told that the latest versions of WinZip can also read them. 230- 230--- magi Identifier utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive Year 2001 Jarosciak 2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read Vice covered this.