On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:40:26 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Monday, January 20, 2020 at 4:56:55 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 21:47:29 -0000, "Ophelia"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > I think you can see how long people have been on usenet. Can you see
>> >when I started???
>>
>> This is the archive:
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!fo...c.food.cooking
>>
>> It doesn't work well since Google took it over. You can search for
>> "Ophelia" and sort by date. But it will start with 2020 and before
>> you've gone back a couple of years, the day will be over. Unless
>> there's a way to sort starting with the furthest back.
>
>I didn't have that much trouble finding my post from 1990 (on another
>newsgroup).

Of course, if you have a unique enough keyword.