Slashdot Mirror
Google Expands Usenet Archive to 20 Years
Paul Boutin writes "The Ghost of Usenet Postings Past has returned to haunt many more of us: Google just announced the expansion of their Usenet archive back to May 3, 1981."Check out the past on Groups.google.com
It doesn't have binary files on there. The only pr0n (why not just spell it as porn?) they have on there is erotic literature.
You die too easily.
Since my article submission is doomed for rejection, let me at least post some of extra stuff I had mentioned. First, check out the monolithic kernel debate between Andy and Linus for yourself. Second, in my article submission about Google, I also mentioned that Alexa now archives the Web, too. Try their Internet Archive Wayback Machine. I found they had an archive of my old WEBsurf magazine from 1997. Hilarious.
My Greasemonkey scripts for Digg &
Pay attention. There's a link to "First mass spamming (Green Card spam)" right there on the timeline page.
Actually, this is the first post. It's *9* days older! =)
it was spelled pr0n back then so that it could not be found by search engines (of all kinds). that was of course when nobody knew about it (unlike today).
keep it simple.
Well the original kremvax (in the post you refer to) was an April Fool's joke... although when the USSR did get on the Internet years later, someone named a machine kremvax in tribute :)
Here is a link to the first "me too".
Read the FAQ, or use the Automatic Removal Tool.
-dair
The famous post, i have seen it quoted so many times. So here it is in the flesh, posted by Linus Benedict Torvalds himself to comp.os.minix, 08:53:28 PST 5th October 2001. Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=8ed1169d0 b48c9b8&rnum=2
I'm pretty sure I get to take the credit for that one - something like it would certainly have existed eventually, but this is the earliest discussion (by ~5 months) that even mentions anything like it, even if I did suggest it as X-NoArchive instead.
I just wish I'd saved the original email as well.
fencepost
just a little off
If you've suffered the consequences of this aggregation and are willing to anonymously tell your story, i am really interested in hearing it. Personally, i would like to encourage Google to change its decision, something that can only be done collectively through people's voices.