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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.poli-sci 138 139
fa.pro-cite 403 1,023
fa.prolog 2 2
fa.psyc 1 1
fa.psyche 8 8
fa.psyche.d 529 1,515
fa.psyche-l 1 1
fa.psychology. 1 1
fa.psychology.bahavior-analysis 2 2
fa.psychology.behavioral-analysis 14 14
fa.psychology.behavior-analysis 3,113 5,412
fa.psychology.business 3 3
fa.psychology.cognitive 420 468
fa.psychology.industrial 47 52
fa.psychology.industrial.forum 144 200
fa.psychology.macintosh 1 1
fa.psychology.organizational.eawop-forum 259 273
fa.psychology.personality.entp 1 1
fa.qj0oegv.1e40uh9 1 1
fa.railroad 167 170
fa.railroad.ctl 3 3
fa.risks 12 12
fa.risks.ctl 4 4
fa.sco 7 7
fa.sco-list 1 1
fa.sf-lovers 262 262
fa.sf-lovers.ctl 1 1
fa.shogi 4,608 6,380
fa.slovenia 2 16
fa.societh-l 138 179
fa.space 103 103
fa.sun-manager 12,823 13,956
fa.sunmgrs 1 11
fa.sun-spots 1 1
fa.tcp-ip 434 449
fa.tcp-ip.ctl 1 1
fa.technoculture 15 51
fa.technomads 14 18
fa.telecom 536 548
fa.telecom.ctl 1 1
fa.teletext 7 8
fa.teletext.ctl 2 2
fa.test 38 119
fa.think-c 1 1
fa.thinknet.autopoiesis 3 5
fa.thinknet.foucault.slowreading 1 1
fa.thinknet.heidegger.slowreading 2 2
fa.thinknet.literature-philosophy 3 3
fa.thinknet.nietzsche.slowreading 14 17
fa.thinknet.philosophy 1 1
fa.tk-tcl 9 18
fa.typography 4,021 11,211
fa.unix-wizards 1,011 1,016
fa.weights 379 395
fa.wishperd 427 454
fa.works 353 353
fa.www.html-wg 1 19
fa.xforms 2,356 4,423
mod.ai 1,208 1,335
mod.amiga 80 94
mod.amiga.binaries 1 2
mod.amiga.sources 49 49
mod.announce 27 41
mod.announce.newusers 69 163
mod.ber 78 78
mod.ber.ctl 3 3
mod.compilers 142 159
mod.comp.laser-printers 2 2
mod.comp-soc 281 336
mod.computers 1 26
mod.computers.68k 199 223
mod.computers.apollo 383 437
mod.computers.apollo.ctl 1 1
mod.computers.gould 18 18
mod.computers.ibm-pc 150 167
mod.computers.ibm-pc.ctl 1 1
mod.computers.laser-printers 681 835
mod.computers.laser-printers.ctl 1 1
mod.computers.macintosh 23 23
mod.computers.macintosh.ctl 1 1
mod.computers.masscomp 108 116
mod.computers.pyramid 59 66
mod.computers.pyramid.ctl 1 1
mod.computers.ridge 53 60
mod.computers.sequent 33 34
mod.computers.sun 47 49
mod.computers.sun.ctl 1 1
mod.computers.vax 3,855 4,192
mod.computers.vax.ctl 1 1
mod.computers.works.ctl 1 1
mod.computers.workstations 182 265
mod.conferences 110 117
mod.ctl.general 1 1
mod.foo.ctl 3 3
mod.fuck.jan-isley 1 1
mod.general 1 1
mod.general.ctl 1 1
mod.graphics 59 69
mod.human-nets 26 27
mod.human-nets.ctl 1 1
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