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Article #624954Re: usenet history, was 1958 Crisis in education
From: John Levine
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:40
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:40
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In article <5b537e2d...@news.dslextreme.com>, Questor <usenet@only.tnx> wrote: >Usenet posts used to be considered ephemeral; now they're eternal -- even ones >made many years before Dejanews, let alone Google Groups. They were only ephemeral because we didn't have enough disk space to keep them all. The more disk you had, the more you kept. There were usenet sites fed by magtape, and I always assumed they kept the tapes. As others have noted, the fact that we have archives back to 1981 tells us that *someone* was always keeping them. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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