Usenet Sample — soc.* hierarchy
A Usenet (sample) dataset of 7,361 posts from 273 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.
Cite this dataset at
usenet-soc.echo.directory
Analytics
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Show all 13 topics
Topic 12
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
usenet-soc- 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 — soc.* hierarchy [Data set]. https://usenet-soc.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
OwnedByDanes. Usenet Sample — soc.* hierarchy. 2026, usenet-soc.echo.directory/.