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Comment by zandorg | Hacker News Reader

This is my search engine for Usenet, currently only for the 1980s but I hope to have 2003 onwards searchable soon. I have about 2TB of news from 2003 which just needs indexing and uploading.

http://www.dejadejadeja.com/10years/

My goal is to give people an alternative to 'Google Groups'.

It's built on PHP and MySQL.

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For his query: http://www.dejadejadeja.com/10years/query.php?body=Star+Wars...

The top post is this: http://www.dejadejadeja.com/10years/getmsg.php?whichmsg=ixlp...

It has a post date of: Wed Dec 15 10:30:01 1982, but is given as 1970-01-01 in the search results.

I'm seeing lots of 1970-01-01 results. A bug, perhaps?

Yes, it can't handle all date formats, so it defaults to 0 which is Jan 1st 1970.

It's easily fixable but I haven't got around to it yet.

I take it you're missing the 90s? (Alas, most of my Usenet usage was between 1994 and 2003.)

It's not possible to get Usenet from the 90s, as it simply isn't archived. 80s is archived via Internet Archive and you can get 10 years worth from 2003 via Usenet king GigaNews.

Google Groups has the 90s, but it's locked behind a 'Googlewall'.

> Google Groups has the 90s, but it's locked behind a 'Googlewall'.

And I believe that is a crime against humanity.

Don't know if I'm being silly here, but is it worth just asking them for it? I'm sure there is some sentimental types in Google that would be cool with what you're doing.

Where are you getting the newer Usenet archive from?

Thanks for turning me on to the Archive.org's 'UTZoo archive', sadly it is only 1981-1991 and incomplete. What a shame. :(

I get the news from 2003 to present from GigaNews. I have about 2TB of it. That period is not indexed, so you can only search 1981-1991.

When I get a 4TB drive (soon I hope) I'll make the 2003 stuff searchable.

Once you've got this a bit more solid, I'd strongly urge you to submit this to HN.

I submitted it 2 days ago but it just dropped off the 'New' page...

I'm not sure what the re-sub policy is, but do keep trying.

I like this.

> It's built on PHP and MySQL.

And Comic Sans... :P

Cool. But those are some damn ugly fonts.

Thanks for this. It looks awesome!!!

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