BBC News: Digital History Saved - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1709527.stm
"Millions of messages posted on electronic bulletin boards over the past 20 years have been saved from digital oblivion." |
CNet: Deja.com Struggles After Google Buyout - http://www.news.com/2100-1023-252701.html
Stefanie Olsen's article: "Deja.com, a popular newsgroup search service, has been hit with glitches after its buyout this week by Web search provider Google, ruffling the feathers of some longtime customers." |
Google Groups - http://groups.google.com/
Enables users to search and browse the Usenet archives which consist of over 700 million messages, and post new comments. |
Google Groups Simplifier - http://www.bleb.org/google/
Simplifies Google Groups' URLs for easier inclusion in e-mails/posts/web pages. With bookmarklet. |
New York Times: Privacy Concerns for Google Archive - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/07/technology/07NECO.html
Susan Stellin's article: "Being able to search archived postings online raises questions about the implications of increasingly sophisticated search technology." |
NewsBreaks: Google Seeks to Restore Deja Functionality - http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=17594
Richard W. Wiggins' article: "Since the February acquisition, Google has restored some of the lost searching functionality, and the company also says that by mid-May users of the Google Usenet index will have the ability to post new messages." |
NewsFactor: Google Puts Blast from Internet's Past Online - http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/15280.html
Jay Lyman's article: "The Google Groups Usenet archive takes surfers on a two-decades-long ride through the early history of the Internet - before there was a World Wide Web." |
Panida: Google Groups Opens Up for Posting Usenet Messages - http://www.pandia.com/searchworld/2001-30-usenet.html
Finally, you can post Usenet messages at Google. |
Silicon Alley News: Deja Usenet Archives Restored on Google - http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/8471_755181
"To the delight (and possible consternation) of old-school Usenet fans, Web search site Google has restored more than 650 million individual messages dating back to 1995 that were acquired from New York-based Deja.com." |
The Write News: Google Provides Access to Full Usenet Archives - http://writenews.com/2001/050401_dejanews_archives.htm
Google, a provider of search technology, announced that it has integrated the full Usenet archive formerly maintained by Deja.com with recent posts to provide complete access to Usenet data since 1995. |