[HN Gopher] olduse.net
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       olduse.net
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 90 points
       Date   : 2025-03-02 18:21 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (olduse.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (olduse.net)
        
       | pogue wrote:
       | What is this? An NNTP service of some sort?
        
         | yapyap wrote:
         | looks like an NNTP service that'll publish your message after a
         | certain amount of time depending on the port
        
         | nickthegreek wrote:
         | > olduse.net was posting the first 10 years of archived usenet
         | articles to a news server, replaying usenet as it happened 30
         | years earlier. It also had a web interface with an interactive
         | news reader, allowing you to access the news server via the web
         | instead of using nntp.
        
         | krelian wrote:
         | An NNTP server that allows you to experience old Usenet with a
         | 40 year delay. You'd get each day's messages as if they were
         | published today.
        
       | fifticon wrote:
       | by jove, old green terminal fonts make me nostalgic. So much
       | Moria played, so much NN news-reading.
        
         | fouronnes3 wrote:
         | You will enjoy cool retro term!
         | https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
        
       | throwing_away wrote:
       | But does it include binaries?
        
         | genewitch wrote:
         | this is a valid - if cheeky - question. There is probably a
         | fair amount of software lost to the sands of time that would be
         | fun to discover on an old NNTP server.
        
           | reddalo wrote:
           | It's sad that the Usenet archive by Google doesn't have old
           | binaries at all, and neither do all those "modern" services
           | which are primarly used for piracy.
           | 
           | I wonder how much software has been lost forever.
        
           | throwing_away wrote:
           | Valid and cheeky is squarely where I'm aiming, so thank you
           | ;)
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related:
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       |  _Olduse.net: a 30-year delayed Usenet feed_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12401026 - Aug 2016 (33
       | comments)
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       |  _Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8780135 - Dec 2014 (26
       | comments)
       | 
       |  _Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2622250 - June 2011 (54
       | comments)
       | 
       | also
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       |  _Old usenet maps_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14625302 - June 2017 (22
       | comments)
        
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