ECHOExploratory Compendium of Humanity Online

Usenet Sample — All Hierarchies

AnalyzedMediumtextUsenetSocial graph

A Usenet (sample) dataset of 64,999 posts from 4754 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.

#Early internet#Newsgroup

Cite this dataset at usenet-sample-all.echo.directory

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Analytics

8.0
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.9
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
emailwrotenewslike000dontimemessagealtpeoplenewknowusethinkgoodwaysubjectarticlemailwantworksysteminformationneedsaidrightdatefaqfilelistworldfindversionreadsexpostfontyearsftpgroupcompfreesetnewsgroupsmansoftwaretypeproblemavailableline
Topic clusters

Topic 0

write
email
message
article
thank
news
know
post

Topic 1

file
email
faq
newsgroup
subject
use
date
system

Topic 2

god
people
know
think
write
fact
thing
man

Topic 3

energy
space
write
photon
time
earth
particle
fuel

Topic 4

vida
erp
christ
jesus
che
heavenly
dios
que

Topic 5

year
time
email
medical
patient
people
hiv
risk

Topic 6

jewish
jews
people
war
judaism
law
government
torah

Topic 7

shakespeare
play
write
oxford
know
man
william
king

Topic 8

email
write
article
group
post
think
people
like

Topic 9

university
college
hand
ranch
state
ann
indiana
robert

Topic 10

info
spam
content
pgp
email
type
html
font

Topic 11

write
fuck
email
like
message
post
fucking
think
Show all 13 topics

Topic 12

job
experience
resume
position
project
salary
skill
development
Top hashtags
#ï759
#1562
#p392
#s392
#w389
#c387
#n386
#t386
#e380
#o376
#l372
#r348
#2328
#ffffff273
#u243
#endif226
#include222
#define206
#3160
#5153
Top emoji
🙈1
🙉1
🙊1

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 65K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
usenet-sample-all
Authors
OwnedByDanes
Year
2026
Source paper
Usenet Corpus Sample (5000 posts per hierarchy)
License
Free sample — full corpus gated (contact usenetoverlord@gmail.com)
Records
64,999
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 — All Hierarchies [Data set]. https://usenet-sample-all.echo.directory/

MLA

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

OwnedByDanes. Usenet Sample — All Hierarchies. 2026, usenet-sample-all.echo.directory/.

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