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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
Awright! Just think of all the old porn that awaits my eager stare! No sleep for me tonight.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
I don't think ANYBODY should be held liable for Usenet postings they made when they were 14 years old...it's like having naked baby pictures of yourself stapled to your forehead when you walk around...
:)
On the other hand, you can now go back and see who REALLY won all those flame wars you were involved in
So that means that this is currently THE first post!
That's a neat timeline, but what it's missing that I'd love to see:
First Spam
First Metoo
First Flamewar
First MLM/chain letter
You know, the really important historical stuff.
Who moderates the meta-moderators?
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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Don't you love Google? This item took some decent reseach, holds genuine interest for many of us, is presented in a light format with no banner ads and is actually interesting.
If only Google could take over the WWW as well as usenet we'd all be better off!
It appears that this is the first message mentioning slashdot.org.
This one is the first post by Rob Malda.
First mention of Jeff "Hemos" Bates.
First mention of CowboyNeal (is it the same guy?).
Awww, you guys...
Cheers,
IT
Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
Now that Google has a historian's wet-dream of actual writings by actual humans as they experienced historic events, such as the falling of the Berlin wall, what are the odds that someone at some point moves to ensure that this information is preserved? I think Google may be thinking very smart here. Their product could become so important that people might actively try to preserve the company, too.
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Hey Folks,
:)
A lot of fun and a great job. Christ it's a laugh to look up first mentions of things.
Why not send a little thanks to google and the folks listed on their page that THEY give thanks to. For the lazy:
comments@google.com
bjones@wmhosting.com
faq-admin@faqs.org
magi@csd.uwo.ca
Doesn't take but a few minutes... So go on and drop them a note. Probably matters more than you think
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 :)
I think this should be called the St. Peter Effect... you see, cuz when we go to heaven, St. Peter will Google us, and pull back everything we have ever thought, said or did - ranked by relevance or date... Just be glad that mere mortals are limited to 20 years of newsgroup postings!
BTW: If you search on my name and find stuff about LSD, it was another Chris McKinstry.
The card I have is a VG-2000 by DFI
with 512kB video ram, supposed to be able to do almost anything (well
1024x768 16 colours anyway). The problem is - it doesn't.
Hey, buddy, quit bitching and just use it in VGA mode, like everybody else.
If you don't like it, why don't you just go write your own drivers? While you're at it, why don't you go write your own Operating System???
(Heh heh... Sure told him a thing-or-two...)
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