Usenet Archives

🗃️ 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
net.jokes.d 712 1,769
net.jokes.d.ctl 4 4
net.jokes.lime 1 2
net.jokes.limerick 8 13
net.jokes.q 325 353
net.junk 15 15
net.kermit 16 16
net.kids 817 2,769
net.kids.ctl 7 7
net.lan 730 1,675
net.lan.ctl 3 3
net.lang 920 2,736
net.lang.ada 809 1,212
net.lang.ada.ctl 4 4
net.lang.apl 179 292
net.lang.apl.ctl 6 6
net.lang.c 3,464 10,826
net.lang.c++ 232 399
net.lang.c++.ctl 4 5
net.lang.c.ctl 4 4
net.lang.ctl 4 4
net.lang.f77 203 582
net.lang.f77.ctl 9 9
net.lang.forth 264 522
net.lang.forth.ctl 4 4
net.lang.lisp 494 1,084
net.lang.lisp.ctl 7 7
net.lang.mod2 428 691
net.lang.mod2.ctl 9 9
net.lang.pasca 5 8
net.lang.pasca.ctl 1 1
net.lang.pascal 208 663
net.lang.pascal.ctl 6 6
net.lang.prolo 2 2
net.lang.prolog 649 879
net.lang.prolog.ctl 4 4
net.lang.st80 239 479
net.lang.st80.ctl 5 5
net.leakage 1 1
net.legal 528 3,507
net.legal.ctl 8 8
net.legends.lester-mosley 1 1
net.limerick 3 3
net.limerick.ctl 1 1
net.lisp 2 8
net.lisp.ctl 1 1
net.lsi 71 177
net.lsi.ctl 4 4
net.lycanthropy 3 3
net.mag 206 271
net.mag.ctl 7 7
net.mail 600 2,000
net.mail.ctl 7 7
net.mail.headers 517 731
net.mail.headers.ctl 13 13
net.mail.msggroup 68 123
net.mail.msggroup.ctl 9 9
net.math 1,576 3,292
net.math.ctl 5 5
net.math.stat 120 223
net.math.stat.ctl 9 9
net.math.symbolic 84 148
net.math.symbolic.ctl 6 6
net.mc 1 1
net.med 1,311 3,828
net.med.ctl 9 9
net.med.equipment 1 1
net.media. 1 1
net.media.electronic The electronic media 4 13
net.media.film 2 2
net.media.film-industry The Industry 15 21
net.media.genre.sf.tv 1 1
net.media.movies The Movies (film, video, even MPEG) 9 49
net.media.other Anything not covered by existing groups 2 37
net.media.print The printed word 4 5
net.media.tv Television (neither rare nor well done) 3 8
net.medicine.clinical.general All about making people better. 20 31
net.medicine.education.general Teaching and learning medicine. 23 32
net.medicine.policy.general What do we do and who pays for it? 8 16
net.medicine.public-health.drugs Drugs and society's health. 31 45
net.medicine.public-health.general Healthy people, all at once. 56 68
net.medicine.research.general Finding ways to make people better. 1 11
net.medicine.support.general Mutual support is a stable structure. 21 28
net.medicine.veterinary.general Animal health care. 19 49
net.medlux.support.general 2 2
net.megabozo.irwin-allen 2 2
net.micro 10,463 16,976
net.micro.16k 116 495
net.micro.16k.ctl 7 7
net.micro.432 34 49
net.micro.432.ctl 5 5
net.micro.68 1 1
net.micro.6809 512 1,003
net.micro.6809.ctl 12 12
net.micro.68.ctl 1 1
net.micro.68k 511 2,065
net.micro.68k.ctl 5 5
net.micro.amiga 2,527 5,616
net.micro.amiga.ctl 19 19
net.micro.appl 5 17
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