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The reality is not far from this - AIUI, the Internet Archive does have a fairly sizable archive of very early Usenet that was extracted from backup tapes store
by 0815test 8y ago
The reality is not far from this - AIUI, the Internet Archive does have a fairly sizable archive of very early Usenet that was extracted from backup tapes stored at a random zoology department somewhere in Canada. So dangerous snakes were very likely involved, at least.
- DonHopkins 8y agoA random zoology department somewhere in Canada??! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer That's like saying seismo was a random nuclear warhead detonation monitoring facility somewhere in Northern Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Adams_(Internet_pioneer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Adams_(Internet_pioneer) If utzoo was involved, then they probably mounted a scratch monkey, at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_monkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_monkey https://edp.org/monkey.htm https://edp.org/monkey.htm
- ghaff 8y agoHere's the story: https://www.salon.com/2002/01/08/saving_usenet/ https://www.salon.com/2002/01/08/saving_usenet/ One of the interesting points the story brings up is that you never know what future people will care about. In this case cultural and political discussions are typically more interesting than arcana about bug fixes in long ago systems.
- EamonnMR 8y agoIs it hosted anywhere, or just in a vault?