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I used to have a pretty good screen scraper that would search queries on the Google Groups Usenet archives. Inspired by images like this http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_clones?file=Doom_clone_vs_fi...
I was able to dredge some pretty amazing historic articles. Some examples:
First impressions of the GNU manifesto:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.arts.animation/n...
Furst impressions of SNES
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.video/gt3T...
First impressions of PERL
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sources.d/QPt28...
First impressions of Eminem
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.music.hip-hop/oL...
Steve jobs leaves in 85
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.micro.mac/93SYtB...
First impressions of Doom:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.ibm.pc.game...
People pissed at apple in 84
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.flame/e4-wxFKyUu...
WWW first announced:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.next.announ...
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