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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."

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  1. This has been around for a while... by kaden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Heh, this was reported on Slashdot over ago...

  2. Such a nice young man by QuantumG · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I'm also interested in hearing from anybody who has written any of the
    utilities/library functions for minix. If your efforts are freely
    distributable (under copyright or even public domain), I'd like to hear
    from you, so I can add them to the system. I'm using Earl Chews estdio
    right now (thanks for a nice and working system Earl), and similar works
    will be very wellcome. Your (C)'s will of course be left intact. Drop me
    a line if you are willing to let me use your code.

    It's no accident that Linux was such an pleasant project to hack on way back when, Linus is just such a humble and polite person. He still is today. What ever happened to that? These days you're lucky to get a reply to an email when offering to contribute code to an open source project, let alone someone actually thanking you for going to the effort of making something for others to enjoy.

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    1. Re:Such a nice young man by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 4, Insightful
      These days you're lucky to get a reply to an email when offering to contribute code to an open source project, let alone someone actually thanking you for going to the effort of making something for others to enjoy.
      You do still get nice responses those but at a guess I'd think people are more likely to face email overload today. It's not that people themselves are rude as such, they just get more email than they can cope with satisfactorally.

      A good friend of mine works on Linux and it's scary watching him open his mailbox. We're best mates and I don't often get timely responses to emails I send him!

      His email is at least fairly focused. I imagine people who work on things that are more user facing (GNOME, KDE etc) must get a whole lot of stuff coming their way...
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  3. Re:A giggle-inducer by Galvatron · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ...And having it be so terrible that we've lost interest?


    Seriously, I wish we could go back in time and tell him not to look forward to it too much...

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  4. Re:Hurd by Deusy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps it would have been if Linus and Linux hadn't shown up?

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