I've been reading comp.lang.c, comp.unix.programmer, comp.unix.shell, and several others for many years. They've all been quite active, though the past year there seems to be some turnover, with some older members seemingly disappearing and a few newer ones coming aboard. Newbies tend to lower the signal-noise ratio, but it'll pick back up some.
Those groups have been on a long-term decline, but it's been very slow, and there's still the occasional thread with substantive content as good or better than you'll find anywhere else.
I'm still subscribed to sci.crypt but that group sadly succumbed to crackpots and spam several years ago. There may still be some experts lurking but it's hard to see through the noise.
I absolutely hate web-based forums, so you can pry Usenet (and tin) from my cold, dead hands. HN would be awesome with NNTP access.
"We should have done a much better job with preservation." - and that is exactly it, people in the future will look back and shake their heads at the callousness with which we just deleted early history
> "We should have done a much better job with preservation." - and that is exactly it, people in the future will look back and shake their heads at the callousness with which we just deleted early history
I wonder if they'll even look back, at all. Even newspapers post articles linking to tweets or youtube, or articles elsewhere, without mirroring anything. Those will be much more useless than pure text articles that at least describe what they reference. Social media, HN, reddit -- so much is just a stream of things. Permanence and curation, something like building a library, those ideas seem rather abandoned.
The sites are from the torrent and also from the archive team as well. I had to write some code that went through all sites and update the links. I also at the same time tried to just extract the html body and use that for indexing.... Yahoo! must still have the original sites. Surely they could just put them online as a "Read Only" version. They would have nothing to lose
I feel the same that you describe. I was a kid in early 2000's and many things I used to access were not preserved in anyway. I'm so sad about it. That's why I mirror the sites nowadays. The problem is that sites are bigger now are harder to spider sometimes.
Yeah, our little project is getting quite a few hits at the moment - I may have to upgrade the hosting lol. Sorry for the inconvenience. I didn't really think anyone was that interested in Geocities anymore :D
Hi, yes, I think this is because a few of the old Geocities sites had zip files which allowed you to open CD trays and other "kewl hacks" back in the day.
We have run malwarebytes over all the files and they are coming up clean.
