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Many interesting childhood movies are also posted to the newsgroups. Please share them here in this forum ;)
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thelostandbroken wrote: Sun Feb 23, 2025 5:49 am I might ask a favor of you, but it might be nearly impossible, trying to find some old music videos. I have been downloading decades worth of newsgroup posts hoping the ones im still missing are in there somewhere. Found some I had forgotten about so far so hoping there is more in there. All the spam makes it a very tiring process so far.
I understand that those old newsgroup posts have nostalgic value, but nowadays youtube has everything in much better quality... So if you know what you are looking for, it is probably much easier to find it in youtube...
thelostandbroken wrote: Sun Feb 23, 2025 5:49 am I hope the other old time posters are still doing well, so many names I had forgotten, elmtree, bravo, orange cat, so much to dig thru. And I do hope popdrome is well, I have not spoken to him since I was here a year or two ago.
I do hope Xiprus is well too ;) Would love to hear from those guys again...
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Here's a bunch of vids from 2005. Maybe some you were looking for?

https://mega.nz/folder/fwhmXQLR#TFVQcWXtO9nP4votb9iK9w
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mimzy wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:00 am
Here's a bunch of vids from 2005. Maybe some you were looking for?

https://mega.nz/folder/fwhmXQLR#TFVQcWXtO9nP4votb9iK9w
Thank you! That is the right era for sure and you had one I was looking for, "surpix_kvk-uh-oh_hq". I had a crappy version from youtube, your version is much better. her and the girl from "xiprus wind" were my favorites, random fact, if I remember right the girl from wind went on to become a doctor.

The challenge, and why its kind of impossible, I cant actually remember what some of them were called, they were all short, music related but some were very obscure. Moorvis or maybe Bravo posted things like tiny stage, local singing competitions somewhere in Scandinavia, someone else posted some from Poland, I can remember the faces, no idea what the songs were, one I think she was just lip syncing it but it was still cute and I was probably the only one to save it. Another I'm pretty sure was was from a dutch children's show or musical group like M-Kids but it was not from Xiprus, not kinder voor kinder, something like Piet Piraat but with 2-3 girls and really cheesy 2005 vfx flying on a pirate ship :lol: and there are literally no other Dutch/Flemish groups other than M-Kids and I don't remember anyone else posting dutch TV stuff.

If any of that rings a bell, I'm welcome to any guesses but really unless I get lucky in the newsgroups, I think most of these are lost to time.
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mimzy wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:00 am
Here's a bunch of vids from 2005. Maybe some you were looking for?

https://mega.nz/folder/fwhmXQLR#TFVQcWXtO9nP4votb9iK9w
Ohh, Do you remember what poster prefixed their files with "Og-"? I know I had a lot of their posts saved and they were posting dutch stuff too, maybe they were the other dutch poster.
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thelostandbroken wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:11 am If any of that rings a bell, I'm welcome to any guesses but really unless I get lucky in the newsgroups, I think most of these are lost to time.
I can probably find many of those. Have to start a project of sorting my Usenet archives :lol:
thelostandbroken wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:13 am Ohh, Do you remember what poster prefixed their files with "Og-"? I know I had a lot of their posts saved and they were posting dutch stuff too, maybe they were the other dutch poster.
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mimzy wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:15 am
thelostandbroken wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:11 am If any of that rings a bell, I'm welcome to any guesses but really unless I get lucky in the newsgroups, I think most of these are lost to time.
I can probably find many of those. Have to start a project of sorting my Usenet archives :lol:
Oh, you would be my hero if you were able to find those. If you ever have the time, I would welcome anything you find. I have more disk space than I know what to do with and gigabyte internet. I would dig thru terabytes to find any of the old music stuff. :lol:
mimzy wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:15 am
thelostandbroken wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:13 am Ohh, Do you remember what poster prefixed their files with "Og-"? I know I had a lot of their posts saved and they were posting dutch stuff too, maybe they were the other dutch poster.
Oscar

Ohh I will have to search newsbin and see if I get lucky, need to check some other newsgroup providers, maybe someone else has even better retention.
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I will soon post some more Usenet stuff I've found, but sadly it seems back then I often downloaded only thumbnail sheets to save disk space :oops:

You might also check the following FLM thread if you haven't already. Don't know how many liks still work, though.

[REL] Junior Eurovision Song Contest

There was one site, probably kidsmusic.net.ru, that had a large database of singers, but it seems to be no longer available :(
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mimzy wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 1:24 am I will soon post some more Usenet stuff I've found, but sadly it seems back then I often downloaded only thumbnail sheets to save disk space :oops:

You might also check the following FLM thread if you haven't already. Don't know how many liks still work, though.

[REL] Junior Eurovision Song Contest

There was one site, probably kidsmusic.net.ru, that had a large database of singers, but it seems to be no longer available :(
That's ok, I knew it was a long shot but anything you find is welcome. I do remember that kidsmusic site, sad to hear it gone. Wish the compression on youtube did not suck so much, lot of good stuff there but the old stuff is compressed horribly.
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Here's some more Usenet stuff as promised.

https://mega.nz/folder/ilB1VIxQ#RGD7micUb8e3AEXQfqSuNA
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mimzy wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 11:15 pm Here's some more Usenet stuff as promised.

https://mega.nz/folder/ilB1VIxQ#RGD7micUb8e3AEXQfqSuNA
Huge thank you! You had a bunch in there was I missing!
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