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"Millions of messages posted on electronic bulletin boards over the past 20 years have been saved from digital oblivion."
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Stefanie Olsen's article: "Deja.com, a popular newsgroup search service, has been hit with glitches after its buyout this week by Web search provider Google, ruffling the feathers of some longtime customers."
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Enables users to search and browse the Usenet archives which consist of over 700 million messages, and post new comments.
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Simplifies Google Groups' URLs for easier inclusion in e-mails/posts/web pages. With bookmarklet.
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Susan Stellin's article: "Being able to search archived postings online raises questions about the implications of increasingly sophisticated search technology."
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Richard W. Wiggins' article: "Since the February acquisition, Google has restored some of the lost searching functionality, and the company also says that by mid-May users of the Google Usenet index will have the ability to post new messages."
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Jay Lyman's article: "The Google Groups Usenet archive takes surfers on a two-decades-long ride through the early history of the Internet - before there was a World Wide Web."
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Finally, you can post Usenet messages at Google.
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"To the delight (and possible consternation) of old-school Usenet fans, Web search site Google has restored more than 650 million individual messages dating back to 1995 that were acquired from New York-based Deja.com."
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Google, a provider of search technology, announced that it has integrated the full Usenet archive formerly maintained by Deja.com with recent posts to provide complete access to Usenet data since 1995.
