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Google Expands Usenet Archive to 20 Years

Posted by chrisd on from the alt.pave.the.earth-archive dept.

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

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  1. well, I just submitted this, soo.... by Anthony+Boyd · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  2. Re:!mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko by Dahan · · Score: 5, Informative

    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 :)

  3. Re:ok, so how do we delete our posts? by dair · · Score: 4, Informative

    Read the FAQ, or use the Automatic Removal Tool.

    -dair

  4. I FOUND IT! by someone_took_my_nick · · Score: 4, Informative

    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