Why there’s so little left of the early internet
<i>if I ever needed to show proof of my time there it would only be a Google search away</i><p>On that topic, has anyone discovered why Google deep-six&#x27;d Usenet archives it acquired with Deja News?<p>You used to be able to find specific posts from specific posters with by: and other operators. Sometime in the aughts it degraded quickly to the point where I can&#x27;t find threads from which I have explicit excerpts and full author names.<p>Does someone high up in Google have an embarrassing usenet history? Did it just fall in disrepair?