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Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline

Posted by timothy on from the immemorial dept.

theRG writes "Google just released its 20-Year Usenet Timeline. Among the highlights: First Mac rumor, first 'me too' post, Tim Berners-Lee's announcement of the Web, and Linus' announcement of Linux."

7 of 412 comments (clear)

  1. Just Released???? by Jack+Porter · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's been over 3 years since this page went up!

    From the linked page:

    11 Dec 2001 Google offers 20-year Usenet Archive

  2. Publication Date???? by sljgh · · Score: 3, Informative

    Clearly no one saw the 2003 at the bottom of the page.

  3. Re:Broken link by piquadratCH · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can find it here

  4. Googles Usenet search is really really bad. by BrookHarty · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've been using usenet since 89, seen many different usenet programs and web interfaces. Just for the heck of it, I tried to search some old amiga/commodore groups, and early fido/bbs groups, what a lack of searchs. I did some searchs back before google took over, and Deja had those posts, google seems to be missing information.

    Search by reverse date is missing.
    Threaded and hourly view is missing, too much crap on the screen.
    Side bars in the way. (Again more crap)

    Pretty much, I browse a few groups, but with perlmonks and other major discussion groups going to forums and leaving usenet, its more of a legacy I still enjoy than can use.

    Always wished people using bbforums would have an archived usenet feed just to keep a history. Also you dont need to belong to the forum.

    I feel forum's killed usenet, and forums are rather weak.
    How many forums are you on? Slashdot and about 6 dozen more.

    While im glad Google has taken over, I wish they could at least make a forum interface that doesnt suck.

  5. Re:This has been around for a while... by TrevorB · · Score: 4, Informative

    And even then, it was old news.

    The last item on the list behind the link:

    11 Dec 2001 Google offers 20-year Usenet Archive

    Which makes this story not only a dupe, but 3 years old as well...

    If we keep this up we'll start seeing dupe John Katz posts any time now.

  6. Re:This has been around for a while... by 1u3hr · · Score: 3, Informative
    I think the difference is that the old article mentioned that google news has 20 years of data, but this one links to a timeline page. Related, closely, but still different.

    No, the timeline featured in today's dupe was also linked in the old post. Same page: http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announc e_20.html both times.

  7. Re:Map of usenet by duffster · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try the copy on UK Google Groups, which looks much better. Hopefully Google won't alter the link automatically (they now change google.com to google.co.uk in the UK).

    So, about that $5.00... ;-)