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Access usenet archive in 'real time' with 40-45 years delay, as if it was happening now

Delay (years)Connect to (port)#groups#articles40olduse.net 119402652864041olduse.net 1194191393342olduse.net 11942315 olduse.net was an interactive art installation conceived and implemented by Joey Hess that ran from 2011 to 2021. When the project was announced I wanted a way to link to those old articles on the web, so I borrowed some of Joey Hess' code and implemented article.olduse.net, by shoveling the archive into a database. My service hasn't seen that much use, but it did get its own version of "FSF-dotting", when the 30th anniversary of the GNU project announcement was celebrated, and many sites linked to the original article on article.olduse.net.

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