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Article #624958Plato Notes (was Re: usenet history, was 1958 Crisis in education)
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:06
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:06
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Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> writes: >On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, John Levine wrote: > >> 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. >> >I have some messages going back to 1996, things I thought were interesting >enough to save, or messages I intended to reply to, but never did. Not >really an "archive" but that was how simple it was to keep messages. >Actually, when we had a "freenet" here in Montreal in 1996, there was a >newsgroup only there, and I did archive the whole four months of >operation. So, I wonder if anyone preserved the Plato Notes postings from the 70's and early 80's?
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