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by bjourne 101 days ago
I do remember. :) Posted the same question ten years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12216932 The archives are almost completely gone and only a small fraction is available on internet. Perhaps some still exist on old harddrives - but I wouldn't count on it. Disk space wasn't cheap back then.
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DaiTengu 100 days ago
There are two archives available. What ExecPC had before it was frozen in time, covering 1993-1997 or so, and an archive from "Starfleet HQ BBS" https://breakintochat.com/collections/messages/fidonet/index...

A lot of current BBSes may have archives from the last 10 years or so. I know mine does: https://warensemble.com

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ghaff 100 days ago
Well, and hard drives fail and there weren't really great economical backup options at the time. In spite of being active on one BBS in particular, I basically have nothing digital saved from that time.
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