How Google Saved USENET

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday January 7, 2002 @10:22AM from the pouring-amber-on-ants dept.

Masem writes: "Salon has a well-written article article on the recent revival of much of the USENET archives from '81 to '90 by Google. It mentions that much of the recovery was thanks to years of work in transferring data off 140-some 10" magnetic tapes (~120megs of data) to a more conventional format in order to recover much of the early posts. Even a reference to the previous Slashdot story is made." Update: 01/07 23:52 GMT by T : btempleton adds: "O'Reilly Network asked me to do an article on similar themes and rememberances of USENET history." Thanks, Brad.

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Re:I've really got to wonder... by titurel · 2002-01-07 10:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Well, they do have sponsored links on the websearch, that should make them some money..

See Search on google for sex
Re:services like Deja/Google killed USENET by markj02 · 2002-01-07 18:00 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Ah, I see, another idiotic, anonymous Slashdot moderator got to my post.