Usenet Corpus 1980–2013
- Type
- dataset
- Venue
- OwnedByDanes
- Year
- 2026
- Source
- huggingface
- Access
- free
- Language
- en, pl, nl, es, fr, it, de, ru, ja, pt
- Added
- 2026-07-17T20:02:11.229071+00:00
- Verified
- 2026-07-17T20:02:11.229071+00:00
Summary
This dataset contains **408 million cleaned and deduplicated Usenet posts** spanning 1980–2013 across 18,347 newsgroups. It is sourced from one of the largest privately held Usenet corpora and has been rigorously processed for modern AI training use cases.
Keywords
hf-dataset language-modeling · -chat---dialogue json text datasets dask polars mlcroissant usenet internet-history forums long-form-text pre-web conversational historical pretraining
Topics
Language Modeling, Chat / Dialogue
Research notes
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