ECHOExploratory Compendium of Humanity Online

Usenet Sample — comp.* hierarchy

AnalyzedSmalltextUsenetCommunicationSocial graphSoftware development

A Usenet (sample) dataset of 7,361 posts from 801 newsgroups, collected by OwnedByDanes via Hugging Face. Each record contains post text, newsgroup, date, author, subject. Sample of Usenet posts from 1980–2013, with 5,000 posts per top‑level hierarchy. Covers comp.*, sci.*, rec.*, alt.*, etc.. Suitable for historical discourse analysis, early internet culture, topic evolution, authorship attribution.

#Comp hierarchy#Early internet#Hugging face#Newsgroup

Cite this dataset at usenet-comp.echo.directory

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Analytics

7.7
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.2
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
emailwroteuselikefileeditionsystemdontimeknowmessagenewworkftpproblemdataneedwantmanualthankssoftwarearticletestserverwaythinkwindowscodeversionsetprogramfilesnewshelpgood2012runbankmailsupportdrivefindinformationwritestryetctypepeoplereadmac
Topic clusters

Topic 0

email
write
article
message
thank
work
try
think

Topic 1

write
think
email
like
time
people
good
know

Topic 2

table
error
try
thank
use
value
create
file

Topic 3

card
driver
drive
partition
problem
disk
instal
run

Topic 4

mother
son
file
email
system
use
datum
software

Topic 5

network
server
machine
work
problem
try
thank
help

Topic 6

email
article
write
run
file
system
use
program

Topic 7

job
experience
position
resume
skill
development
year
company
Top hashtags
#t374
#p371
#e370
#c369
#n369
#w369
#o364
#l357
#s353
#r333
#u225
#160
#include41
#236
#define32
#f30
#endif28
#if25
#00000016
#313
Top emoji
🙈1
🙉1
🙊1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
usenet-comp
Authors
OwnedByDanes
Year
2026
Source paper
Usenet Corpus Sample (5000 posts per hierarchy)
License
Free sample — full corpus gated (contact usenetoverlord@gmail.com)
Records
7,361
Languages
en
Collected
1980–2013 (Before 1990, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://huggingface.co/datasets/OwnedByDanes/Usenet-Corpus-1980-2013 link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 101.9 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{usenet_sample_2026,
  title     = {Usenet Corpus Sample (5000 posts per hierarchy)},
  author    = {OwnedByDanes},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/OwnedByDanes/Usenet-Corpus-1980-2013}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

OwnedByDanes (2026). Usenet Sample — comp.* hierarchy [Data set]. https://usenet-comp.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

OwnedByDanes. Usenet Sample — comp.* hierarchy. 2026, usenet-comp.echo.directory/.

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