[TUHS] Steve Bellovin recounts the history of USENET

[reed at reedmedia.net]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2019, Larry McVoy wrote:

> On the Usenet topic, does anyone remember dejanews?  Searchable
> archive of all the posts to Usenet.  Google bought them and then,
> so far as I know, the searchable part went away.

See
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/net.sources/84CTdvAdlb0/gTkGJnbSXxEJ

Click the drop-down arrow in the search field.

You can also use keywords in the search form.
Here is another example

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/net.unix/dmr$20AND$20before$3A1985$2F01$2F01%7Csort:date/net.unix/9VegaP_SIyI/3GHz6bPEDgsJ