Off the Boards, on the History Books
A recent piece in Salon takes a look at a couple of repositories of old BBS and Usenet postings. Textfiles collects ASCII posts from the mid-'80s. And Google's 20-year Usenet archive does something similar. Using Google, I found almost 150 posts I made to the alt.zines newsgroup in the early- to mid-'90s. I also needed some technical help using Microsoft Access during my first job out of uni. I turned to comp.databases.ms-access for help.