Domesday Book Goes Online · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday August 4, 2006 @03:25PM from the not-doomsday-that's-in-a-ghostbusters-episode dept.

Accommodate Students writes "The Domesday Book has gone online. As one of the earliest public records goes online, anyone with an internet connection will be able to access this important document. Amongst other interesting facts, the BBC is reporting that the Book can still be used today in court for property disputes. In an interesting development, the National Archives are making online searches free, but downloads of data will cost £3.50 (approx $6.50 US). Similar launches of historical websites in the past have struggled to keep up with server loads in their first days and weeks, so it remains to be seen whether the Domesday Book online will be more or less fragile than the parchment originals."

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Re:Cool! by User+956 · 2006-08-04 15:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"The Doomsday Book"!! ...oh. Domesday. Some old British survey book? Bo-ring.

Yeah, the Doomsday book was way cooler because Superman got killed. And then there was like an evil robot Superman, some questionable cloning activity, and Shaquille O'Neil in a technologically-advanced suit of armor.

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