Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to OldNews
Access to millions of historical newspaper pages
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. OldNews launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The Paper▲238News from 100+ years ago, reproduced and delivered via email
2018 · papernewsletter.com · its alternatives →
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SNEWPapers▲126Hello HN, over the past 7 months I've spent nearly 3,000 hours on building SNEWPAPERS, the first historical newpaper archive with full-text extractions, nearly perfect OCR, a vast categorization taxonomy and of course with semantic and agentic search capabilities. Problem: I wanted to search through newspaper archives, but when I tried every service only lets you search for keywords and dates, and gives you back raw images of the papers, and too many of them with no context. A sea of noise. Solution: I taught machines how to read the newspapers and so far I've extracted the content from >…
Apr 2026 · snewpapers.com · its alternatives →
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Oldest Search is a custom google search that specifically targets the oldest entries available. I'm always curious about the first entries for certain data on the internet, it's a valuable perspective builder. I personally like news articles that have been digitized that were written in the pre-internet era. Unfortunately some results don't always work well because pages have been dated incorrectly. For example, searching "Covid" shows recent results. I launch new projects like this daily: small tools to increase human agency. I'm also very open to suggestions to improve!
2022 · oldestsearch.com · its alternatives →
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Get the news you need, no matter how much time you have.
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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165 years of journalism, now available online
2022 · theatlantic.com · its alternatives →
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News Monitoring▲117Get more press by monitoring articles with filters & alerts
2020 · presshunt.co · its alternatives →
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Discover history in any US city
2023 · journal.explorehere.app · its alternatives →
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Create history timelines instantly
2023 · historytimelines.co · its alternatives →
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Pressa▲74Intelligent way to categories your interest, news aggregator
2021 · pressa.app · its alternatives →
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periodical▲101Like Goodreads and The New York Times had a baby
2021 · periodical.cool · its alternatives →
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Newsbrute▲80Find the top daily news from the best sites in one place.
2016 · newsbrute.com · its alternatives →
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PressReader▲113Read news from 6,000+ newspapers and publications online
2016 · pressreader.com · its alternatives →
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History Book▲66Search the content of your browsing history
2022 · andadinosaur.com · its alternatives →
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Rowe▲112News in your Chrome tab that learns your preferences
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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