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January the 17th. Vaguely relevant though, even now.

To me, Ted Nelson's Zigzag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigZag_(software) - is a similiar view to Neuromancer's virtual reality. It's a shame it's not more popular. Gzz is an exce…

TBL is worth over $50 million.

From what I can gather, I downloaded one tenth of Usenet - 11,000 groups. This means if I'd done all 110,000 groups it would have taken me about a year to download them, and an 8TB…

Clucene was way too slow for body text, more than 1GB. I had my own header parser in C++ (though you can do that in Python easily). I'm trying again on that 800GB with KISS DB (app…

It's my fault (not the IA), I thought I'd got all newsgroups but must have missed some. I just checked the main newsgroup list and it's incomplete, for some reason. My plan though,…