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How Google Saved USENET

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Oh Yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First fart

    1. Re:Oh Yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      How do these get modded down so quickly?

    2. Re:Oh Yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Um, how exactly is a first post a troll? Offtopic...yes, troll no. A troll would be something like:

      Linux is too hard to use. Microsoft IIS is superior to Apache. Or in reference to the article; Only geeks still use usenet. And google is a crappy search engine.

      Now there are some commets worthy of a troll. Granted I'm am not as polished as some of the professional trolls, but at least learn how to moderate properly.

    3. Re:Oh Yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      A troll would be something like: Linux is too hard to use. Microsoft IIS is superior to Apache.

      No, that would be 'insightful'.

  2. damn, how do i do it? by mshiltonj · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    tsop trsif

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  3. Re:I've really got to wonder... by titurel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

    See Search on google for sex

  4. Re:USENET: A struggle not worth it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    >everyone has a cell phone

    I don't.

    Therefore you are wrong.

  5. Today's count: 37,532 images! by The+Porn+Count · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I currently have 37,564 pornographic images (pr0n) residing on my hard drive, for a grand total of 4,689,432,576 bytes! This should keep me busy for a few hours!

    UPDATE 02:53: Oh no! I now only have 37,532 porn files (4,682,407,936 bytes)! I decided to delete some old crappy ones. Looks like its time to peruse alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* some more! Woohoo!!

    Stay tuned for daily updates! (Unless Im too busy taking advantage of all these images! Wooha!!)

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  6. Re:services like Deja/Google killed USENET by markj02 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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