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19th Century News Coming Online
mfh writes "The BBC is reporting that approximately a million news stories from the 19th century are going online. The project will cost roughly $3.6 mil USD (converted from UK pounds) and include 100 years of news and images from publications that are no longer copyright protected, and currently only available at the Newspaper Library in Colindale, North London. 52000 newspapers and magazines will be included and the project should take 18 months to complete. This is good news for Slashdotters, as this online archival project will provide a plethora of background material for articles and comments, and possibly pave the way for better online library projects with more current material."
Lexis-Nexis, Wikipedia, etc? http://www.wikipedia.com http://www.lexisnexis.com/ You can find out just about um... anything from the above mentioned sources. While this is VERY cool, as it allows for an unprecedented amount of information to be centralized, can it be more FOCUSED than the news filters/encyclopedias listed above? I suppose only time will tell.
Sorry, but I think M$ft has already has filed a patent on this. Of course we won't be able to learn from history, unless for a very very small fee we pay the beast.