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🗃️ Utzoo / Early Usenet Newsgroups (1981–1991)

The Utzoo archive tapes preserved early Usenet from before the Great Renaming of 1987. These net.*, fa.*, mod.* and to.* hierarchies represent the earliest days of online discussion.

All (378,027) 🗃️ Utzoo Alt (151,236) Rec (16,151) Comp (16,078) Microsoft (12,768) Soc (11,869) Free (6,677) Misc (6,442) Sci (4,598) De (4,491) Fido7 (4,203) News (4,116) It (3,130) Uk (2,858) Fido (2,555) Talk (2,546) Es (2,365) Biz (2,204) Aol (2,167) Msn (2,117) Fj (2,105)
1,409 groups in utzoo.*
Group ▾ Description Threads Posts
fa.a38sapv.1a1281s 34 34
fa.af 8 8
fa.all.ctl 4 4
fa.alpha-osf-managers 28,289 30,548
fa.analytic-philosophy 4,966 44,030
fa.analytic.philosophy 4 4
fa.anarchy-list 390 784
fa.anews-d.ctl 1 1
fa.apollo 73 73
fa.arms-d 313 314
fa.arms-d.ctl 1 1
fa.arpa-bboard 375 377
fa.arpa-bboard.ctl 3 3
fa.at-net 23 23
fa.ayn-rand 2 2
fa.be.bebox 9 9
fa.be.bedevtalk 9 17
fa.beta-usrgroup 11 11
fa.bind 66 76
fa.biomed-i 1 1
fa.bitgraph 13 14
fa.bitgraph.ctl 3 3
fa.caml 16,309 58,662
fa.cdplus-l 1,853 2,586
fa.cisco 1,589 2,213
fa.ctheory 158 158
fa.cybermind 10,847 16,877
fa.cybermind. 1 1
fa.databases.ingres 3 3
fa.decstation-managers 3 6
fa.deos 467 684
fa.dewy-fields@origo.telenor.no 258 258
fa.digest-p 1 1
fa.digest-p.ctl 2 2
fa.disney-comics 8,038 13,930
fa.e5b1djv.1amqtaa 30 30
fa.eapls 2,866 3,105
fa.editor-p 408 409
fa.editor-p.ctl 3 3
fa.edupage 383 387
fa.energy 1 2
fa.energy.ctl 2 2
fa.f4mshev.1l5adoe 5 5
fa.femuscle 1,021 2,485
fa.fiction-of-philosophy 18,650 28,835
fa.fiction-of-philosophyalt.radio.talk.dr-laura 1 1
fa.firearms 634 688
fa.firewall 2,956 3,790
fa.firewalls 1 1
fa.forsale 1 1
fa.freebsd.announce 922 938
fa.freebsd.bugs 77,850 95,394
fa.freebsd.current 42,406 171,507
fa.freebsd.cvs-all 401,403 460,215
fa.freebsd.hackers 16,917 79,807
fa.freebsd.hardware 4,807 12,274
fa.freebsd.questions 56,297 147,318
fa.freebsd.scsi 3,816 10,949
fa.freebsd.security 5,350 25,281
fa.freebsd.stable 30,725 131,108
fa.future-culture 13 22
fa.g8cg30v.1p24sgh 170 170
fa.gaelic-l 3,788 5,529
fa.h19-people 1 1
fa.h19-people.ctl 1 1
fa.h6it7ov.a3gc3l 3 3
fa.haskell 19,460 100,114
fa.humanist 304 318
fa.human-nets 302 305
fa.human-nets.ctl 1 1
fa.hylafax 11,147 32,085
fa.hylafax. 6 6
fa.iaido 7,480 14,362
fa.ietf 6 6
fa.ietf-822 362 3,452
fa.ietf-smtp 2 3
fa.igimdkv.j28ch8 137 137
fa.info-afs 7 12
fa.info-cpm 1,625 1,628
fa.info-cpm.ctl 4 4
fa.info-cvs 22,916 52,835
fa.info-ibmpc 2 2
fa.info-kermit 85 87
fa.info-kermit.ctl 4 5
fa.info-mac 1,630 1,666
fa.info-mac.ctl 5 5
fa.info-mac.sources.ctl 1 1
fa.info-micro 5 5
fa.info-pascal 1 1
fa.info-postscript 1 1
fa.info-terms 404 407
fa.info-terms.ctl 2 2
fa.info-tops20 106 200
fa.info-vax 2,678 2,751
fa.info-vax.ctl 3 3
fa.info-vlsi 124 152
fa.info-vlsi.ctl 1 1
fa.ingres 14,562 33,914
fa.ingres. 5 5
fa.ingress 1 1
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