Why there’s so little left of the early internet
if I ever needed to show proof of my time there it would only be a Google search awayOn that topic, has anyone discovered why Google deep-six'd Usenet archives it acquired with Deja News?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't find threads from which I have explicit excerpts and full author names.Does someone high up in Google have an embarrassing usenet history? Did it just fall in disrepair?