I plan to make the change on Tuesday
unless something horrible happens.
Horton s message was a response to a previous post, the intact original of which is now lost to history, from one sdcarl!rusty, aka Rusty Wright. With this incomplete fragment of a cryptic exchange, the history of Usenet, as we have it today, begins.
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The message is the oldest Usenet posting in the 20-year archive, now searchable on Google. It s the first of some 700 million posts that provide a record spanning the early history to the present of Usenet the sprawling public bulletin board, composed of a vast hierarchy of newsgroups, that grew up alongside the Internet itself.
The World’s Worst-Looking Website Has the World’s Largest Music Collection The Internet Archive is legit and has all the free music you can ask for.and all your other media needs, too
Lukas Harnisch | February 9, 2021 - 9:00 am
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Behind its bare and utilitarian user interface, the Internet Archive has stashed a certified treasure trove of music. It’s the product of the non-profit’s ambitions to build a digitized library to be used by the general public. A library that holds everything from e-books to news broadcast, to computer programs, to old websites, that would otherwise be lost in the ether of web data.
The Internet Archive exists thanks to Ubuntu and the Linux communities
The Internet Archive is unquestionably one of the most useful sites on the web. The Wayback Machine makes it possible to find snapshots of most websites at any given point in their history, and the archive itself is also home to a wealth of books, magazines, games, software, movies and more.
You probably don’t give too much thought (or any thought for that matter) to the day-to-day running of the archive, but it relies on a long-term support server distribution of Ubuntu Linux and everything on its servers (with the possible exception of the JP2 compression library) is free and open-source software.
Thanks to the Internet Archive, the history of American newspapers is more searchable than ever
A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher shows an industry with moments of glory and shame and evidence that not all of today’s problems are new.
By Joshua Benton@jbenton Feb. 2, 2021, 1:53 p.m.
Feb. 2, 2021, 1:53 p.m.
My two intellectual loves are history and journalism alternately, history and its first draft and I’m always happy to see the two overlap. That’s the case with word that the Internet Archive has digitized nearly the entire back catalog of Editor & Publisher for decades the bible of the newspaper industry and made it searchable to all.