I've been using the internet before the Facebook/Myspace boom, but I never had the chance to really experience the "old-web" or usenet. This "project" gives me a chance to see a part of internet history that I missed or was too young to remember delivered from people who were there.
It's a really unique project for people like myself, and I find it comforting to see culture of the internet that I saw a glimpse of in my childhood.