How to Search Today's Usenet For Programming Information? 230
DeadlyBattleRobot writes "I've been using Usenet searches since about 1995 to get programming information, sample code, etc., mostly for those standard APIs that are never documented well enough in the official documentation. At first I used dejanews, and now Google Groups (Google bought dejanews). Over the last few years, I've noticed a steady decline in the quantity of search results on programming topics on Usenet from Google, increasing difficulty with their search UI and result pages, and today I find I'm completely unable to get a working Usenet search on their advanced group search page. I'm used to searching on 'microsoft.*' or 'comp.*,' sometimes supplemented with variations like '*microsoft*' or 'comp*.' As an example, try to find a post from the 1996-1998 time period on 'database' in either the comp.* or microsoft.* hierarchies, and if you can do it, please show your search expression. There should be thousands of results, but I'm getting the result 'Your search — database group:comp.* — did not match any documents.'"
Wait.. what? (Score:5, Funny)
Usenet had groups that didn't have *.sex.* or *.beastiality.* in it? Man, I missed a LOT during the 90's...
yoRu moronsz. (Score:4, Funny)
hi, you must be noob to the internets. this usenet thing went the way of horse drawn buggies and panning for gold. I would suggest you use the web that is world wide (www). this will help you significantly. thank you sir.
Re:Wait.. what? (Score:5, Funny)
No, the correct spelling is:
alt.startrek.wesley.crusher.die.die.die.beastiality
Re:yoRu moronsz. (Score:4, Funny)
The web? Oh, the thing where we were going to link together all of the world's information? Sorry. You can't link to dynamic pages and you might get sued for linking to someone else's content. The web doesn't exist. Just a lot of separate island websites.
Re:Unfortunately... (Score:5, Funny)
I am so not going to a site called expert sex change.com :o
visit Pen Island.com--free pens! (Score:1, Funny)
expertsexchange.com?
Sorry good sir, not falling for it.
Where did you get that idea? (Score:5, Funny)
What regex library do you use which precludes a match for microsoft.* also being a match for *.beastiality.* ?
Re:Wait.. what? (Score:3, Funny)
Death by interspecial snu-snu.
Re:I've noticed the same thing... (Score:2, Funny)
I'm pretty sure people on the Internet back then were unwashed to begin with.
Re:Unfortunately... (Score:3, Funny)
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