Ask HN: A news reader that will give you today 30 years ago

6 pointsmandw2y ago3 comments

As a little bit of fun to add to the day with the coffee it would be interesting to subscribe to something like comp.lang.lisp but get what was posted at some period in the past. For example, tomorrow august the 7th my feed would show posts for August the 7th 1988. I have a feeling it may be something I would have to do myself as a nostalgia project but I wonder if someone may have addressed it already?

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mikewarot2y ago

A subscription to newspapers.com will allow you to browse a given issue of a paper, you could easily look back and see everything on an arbitrary date.

kingkongjaffa2y ago

You can do this with Wikipedia see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2015_A...

Although the detail is less the further back you go. You may need to drop to looking at the entire month or the entire year depending on how far back you go.

mandwOP2y ago

Thank you for the suggestion. The news I was after was usenet feeds, I have archives of some groups but thought it would be interesting to rather than go and read it all at once have it put a new days worth of posts every day from the past.

    As the messages are all in just text format with headers and timestamps I should just be able to extract the messages from a particular day and add them to my news reader, worst case changing the timestamp to today to have it appear in a sensible place and putting the original timestamp back where it can be seen when reading.

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