Usenet Sample — humanities.* hierarchy
A Usenet (sample) dataset of 7,361 posts from 7 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-humanities.echo.directory
Analytics
Topic 0
Topic 1
Topic 2
Topic 3
Topic 4
Topic 5
Topic 6
Topic 7
Topic 8
Topic 9
Topic 10
Topic 11
Show all 15 topics
Topic 12
Topic 13
Topic 14
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
usenet-humanities- 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 — humanities.* hierarchy [Data set]. https://usenet-humanities.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
OwnedByDanes. Usenet Sample — humanities.* hierarchy. 2026, usenet-humanities.echo.directory/.