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Google Begins Fixing Usenet Archive

October 12, 2009 - 7:01am — Blake

Wired Says Google has pulled its Google Groups development team out of the basement broom closet and begun patching up its long-broken Usenet library, in response to their story Wednesday highlighting the company’s neglect of the 700 million post archive.

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October 12, 2009 - 11:36pm — Anonymous

I say bravo...usenet may

I say bravo...usenet may only be of interest to some of us old fogeys, but it is a record of the history of the beginning of social networking.

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October 13, 2009 - 6:34pm — Anonymous

I wish they wouldn't. I

I wish they wouldn't. I posted stuff back then under my real name before I realized that it would stick around forever (or at least it will if Google does work on this project).

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