From: martin@address-in-sig.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 09 Feb 2017 06:17:07 -0800, The old geezer wrote:   
      
   > I've never had any trouble looking up old posts.  When did Google buy   
   > Deja Vue?   
   >   
   In 2001. I said it was a while ago!   
      
   > I started with an AOL Newsgroup Feeder & switched over to   
   > Google Groups when AOL abandoned their site in the early 2000s.   
   >   
   I was using dial-up modems to access bulletin boards until around 1992,   
   when the company I worked for got a permanent Internet connection. Thats   
   about when I got on from home via a dial-up link to Demon, one of the   
   earliest British ISPs. Back then we had e-mail, FTP, Telnet, newsgroups,   
   WAIS, gopher and a marvellous book called "The Whole Internet Catalogue".   
   The World Wide Web hadn't yet escaped from CERN, so it was about two   
   years later that I first saw a web browser.   
      
   > believe a lot of old posts are being brought back to life just (just for   
   > kicks) because of the dearth of new topics as Google Groups has been   
   > dying a slow death for the past 5+ years.   
   >   
   I think that depends on the newsgroup. rec.aviation.soaring, which is one   
   of my regulars, is still pretty much alive and kicking, carrying more or   
   less the same volume of posts as it did 5-10 years ago. That sort of   
   technical group is where it can be quite obvious that somebody was   
   searching the ex-Deja News archive and replied to a post, often   
   containing a 'for sale' note written 6 or 8 years ago, without looking at   
   the posting date.   
      
      
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