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From: xlar54 on 20 Dec 2006 10:52 Check out the group called net.micro.cbm. Posts in there from 1986 and before... I really need to catch up with my history of the "internets"....
From: David Murray on 20 Dec 2006 12:12 > Check out the group called net.micro.cbm. Posts in there from 1986 and > before... I really need to catch up with my history of the Wow.. where did those posts come from? Has usenet been around that long? Were they copied in from some other online service like quantumlink or compuserve?
From: Leif Bloomquist on 20 Dec 2006 12:28 "David Murray" <adric22(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1166634735.232650.156330(a)73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com... > Wow.. where did those posts come from? Has usenet been around that > long? Were they copied in from some other online service like > quantumlink or compuserve? Wikipedia says that Usenet was invented in 1979. Check out Google's Usenet timeline: http://groups.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=timeline.html Especially: "Aug 1982 First mention of the Commodore 64"
From: Jukka Aho on 20 Dec 2006 12:51 David Murray wrote: >> Check out the group called net.micro.cbm. Posts in there from >> 1986 and before... I really need to catch up with my history > Wow.. where did those posts come from? Has usenet been around > that long? Since 1979. See these articles, they should make for an interesting read: <http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_8/chapter10/> <http://ais.org/~jrh/acn/Back_Issues/Back_Issues%5b199 8-2002%5d/ACN8-1.pdf> > Were they copied in from some other online service > like quantumlink or compuserve? Nope. Usenet is Usenet, QuantumLink and CompuServe were something different altogether. These old messages were stored on tape for years, then finally injected into the Google Groups archives: <http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2002/01/07/saving_usenet/> As for why it is called "net.micro.cbm" (http://groups.google.com/group/net.micro.cbm) and not "comp.sys.cbm", see this: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Renaming> -- znark
From: a7yvm109gf5d1 on 20 Dec 2006 15:44
xlar54 wrote: > Check out the group called net.micro.cbm. Posts in there from 1986 and > before... I really need to catch up with my history of the > "internets".... You can click "older" right here about 6180 times like I just did this afternoon. http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.sys.cbm?start=61800&hl=en&sa=N Boy is my finger tired. |