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Post by zimpenfish »

ssl-3 wrote: post #12
stackghost wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

35 years ago we didn’t have the cultural precedent/zeitgeist of getting cancelled for some stupid shit you wrote on a message board in 1991 so we were less guarded with our opinions.

Do we actually have a culture of cancelling people for the things they wrote when they were 12?

No, and we don't really have a culture of cancelling things for people they say now, either, when it comes down to it because if that were true, Trump would not be president given his long history of [waves hands], a large number of Republican politicians would also be out of work, etc.

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Post by doublerabbit »

kingrolo wrote: post #18

Ah this has reminded me of dejanews.com the usenet archive. Before the days of Stack Overflow that was absolute gold for looking up an error message or code issue. If I remember rightly Google bought the data when they shutdown and incorporated it into Google Groups.

And then axed Google Groups and refused to release the data. Typical Google.

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Post by Animats »

imprint5 wrote: post #5
rfarley04 wrote: post #3

Oh my god this is a lifesaver. Just last week I was using Google Groups to search for old Usenet posts about the Commodore 64 and the Mimic Spartan, and I was getting "too many requests" errors 4 out of 5 times clicking a result. Happened on VPN+incognito, and in a separate browser. Just searched for what I was looking for in Rewind and immediately found the posts and even some I never saw in Google Groups results. S…

Not to be a party pooper but this is a paid service. I am sure there are reasons to pay but I bet their archive is the same as https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com which is free. A free web frontend can be found at https://newsgrouper.org

Expensive, too. $40/month.

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Post by jghn »

matherial wrote: post #7

Selfishly, I hate these things. No one in the 1980s and early 1990s expected the internet to become what it did. I discovered it as a dumb teenager and posted some frankly idiotic stuff. I also put my real address and phone number in the signature, because that's how you rolled back then, the entire internet was like 10 nerds. Now, 35 years later, a lot of other stuff has mercifully decayed, but people keep bootstrap…

Same. It’s hard to understand today, but in a world where search engines weren’t really a thing and almost no one knew what the internet was, the concept of “public” was quite different.

Yes, I should have known better in my teenage years about it. And also yes there was no reason for me to expect that everything I wrote would be easily available to some AI panopticon 30-40 years later

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