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Pardon the ignorance 1986 Was this first published in 1986? On the ... internet?
by albert_e 2y ago
Pardon the ignorance
1986
Was this first published in 1986? On the ... internet?
- defrost 2y agoYes, 1986, on Usenet .. a pre WWW internet service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet The same service the Linus | Tannenbaum Minux | Linux debate took place on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...
- ThinkingGuy 2y agoThe Straight Dope was also a long-running newspaper column.
- defrost 2y agoGood point, although it also had a very early Usenet prescence, where I first encountered it being in Australia at the time. Maybe there's a Straight Dope reply to the question of when Cecil and Co first posted on Usenet?
- albert_e 2y agoCool So it is republished and hosted as a website now? this web page / site / post must have appeared on WWW much later in that case? Was originally wondering if this web page is itself published in 1986 (styling /css updates may have come later)
- defrost 2y agoThe text of Straight Dope answers appeared in print and on Usenet and is copyright to the date of writing | first publication. The existing text archives would have been ported forward with their original copyright dates some time post 1989 (when Tim Berners-Lee created his WWW specification) likely at least three or four years on as the practice had to spread outside of CERN, outside of the physics community, and early Mosaic browsers to become popular.