Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups
Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups
Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406863
I love treasure hunting. Sometimes Usenet feels like the dusty old thrift store of the Internet. If you have ever found a thrift store with rows of shelves chock full of books, old compact discs, and ancient cassette tapes, then you know what I mean.
And how many of those terabytes are porn?
Not enough for me, 36 hours alone, and a handful of cialis
Back then, porn only got from a printed page or developed photograph to an electronic format if you had a scanner - and those weren't cheap. Only a corporation or weird uncle had such tech, so the best "porn" I used to see was a fuzzy picture of the Budweiser girls or Cindy Crawford in a 1-piece swimsuit.
If I remember right, textual porn was a bigger thing. People world circulate Penthouse Forum letters they copied from the magazine.