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I found this Usenet Historical Collection link - https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical - in a previous HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16667796).

I have no idea how useful the collection may prove to be. I found 'comp' but it doesn't offer a webpage view, just a link to download a file. https://archive.org/details/usenet-comp

Maybe someone could set up a public inbox[1] instance that allows access to those groups either via HTTP or NNTP.

[1] https://public-inbox.org/README.html

It should be the full archive.

https://www.eternal-september.org/

I think you have to register. Not sure how much history is there.

A lot of posts are missing from this one.

Most free and ISP based usenet feeds had a lot of missing posts, especially since they allowed older posts to expire. Even the commercial usenet providers only started their archives about 12 years ago.

https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/notes.html