Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Google laid Usenet archive for 20 years

Google laid Usenet archive for 20 years

Google finally integrated Usenet archives for 20 years, starting in 1981, Google Groups. This is the most complete collection of messages from Usenet to date - 800 million articles.

——– Mar 1988 First mention of the term ’search engine’
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——– Nov 1988 First warning about the Morris Internet Worm
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——– Nov 1988 Thread about how the Internet Worm worked
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——– Oct 1989 First post in alt.hypertext
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——– Nov 1989 First Make Money Fast post
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——– Jan 1994 Instance of first mass spamming
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——– Jun 1994 Announcement of WebCrawler launch
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——– Dec 1994 Early mentions of Yahoo! and Lycos
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——– Mar 1998 First mention of Google