Google usenet archives now go back 20 years!!!!

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Man, look at some of these discussions from 1981:

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From: mhuxa!presley (mhuxa!presley)
Subject: USENET Name Change
Newsgroups: net.news
Date: 1981-11-01 15:56:54 PST


Here are my suggestions with spider (& webs) in mind:

WEB unfortunately, sounds too much like a TV station
ARACHNE a nice name from Greek mythology

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From: unc!wm (unc!wm)
Subject: Usenet name change
Newsgroups: net.news
Date: 1981-11-02 16:21:05 PST

How about Arachnet?

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From: unc!wm (unc!wm)
Subject: Usenet name change
Newsgroups: net.news
Date: 1981-11-02 16:29:16 PST


Right after I submitted the news item:
"How about Arachnet?" I got three new news items essentially
asking the same question. Hmmmm, maybe we should name it
psinet, or psychonet?
Actually, my favorite name so far was sermonet, but, of course,
that would never do...

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[Calhoun07]

I had no idea there was any form of a public Internet back that far. What kind of modem did they use? 1.1????

[Brian Cruz]

Originally posted by calhoun07
I had no idea there was any form of a public Internet back that far. What kind of modem did they use? 1.1????

My first modem was 2400bps. A modern 56K modem is 56,000bps. God, that was slow.

[Kathy Kane]

Was all this stuff in DOS???
Did they use flopdisks?
WOW I think you just unearthed a dinosaur!

[Failure]

They had usenet in 81? Geez. That's before I was born. Windows wasnt even around then. I thought it was still called Arpanet or something. I bet some of those predictions of what the interenet was gonna be were pretty wild though. :p

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

I was thinking Usenet was made up of about 5 people around North America in those days... :eek:

More gems:

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From: susan (susan@lmef.UUCP)
Subject: Robotech
Newsgroups: net.comics, net.sf-lovers, net.tv
View this article only
Date: 1985-10-24 23:40:00 PST


Salutations!

Has anyone ever heard of Robotech?
It just recently started playing here in the afternoons, and....
I'm hooked.

Some questions I have:

1. Is it new
2. Does it come in comic-book form (if so, where can I
get it?)
3. Does anyone watch it beside me...has anyone HEARD of it
besides me?

I would love to hear from anyone having ANY info on this
animated sf series.

A lonely Micronian & Centratti fan....(sp may be wrong)

*susan*
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From: Lifan Hua (lifan@marvin.cs.Buffalo.EDU)
Subject: Berlin Wall Broken down?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china, soc.rights.human
View: (This is the only article in this thread) | Original Format
Date: 1989-11-09 22:31:01 PST


I just heard the news of Berlin Wall was broken down today.
Can anyone confirm this news?


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From: rmas70!trl (rmas70!trl)
Subject: Tron
Newsgroups: net.movies
View: Complete Thread (9 articles) | Original Format
Date: 1982-07-11 00:57:50 PST


I caught a late night showing of Disney's TRON Friday. The
computer graphics were quite interesting, and sometimes amazing. The
quality of the writing/acting/etc was very questionable. I usually
enjoy any type of sci-fi/adventure flick, but TRON seemed stupid.

TRON, in typical Disney style, lacked any 'real-life'
characters. The story should have kept me at seats-edge, but something
was lacking. I enjoyed the trip through computerland because I knew how
difficult the graphics generation was. However, TRON could have been
more visually exciting if it had been done with conventional Disney
animation.

If you have some extra money and extra time see the flick, but
if you have not counted all the cracks in your ceiling . . .

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From: watmath!rrwilliams (watmath!rrwilliams)
Subject: NHL Player of the Week
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
View: (This is the only article in this thread) | Original Format
Date: 1981-12-22 13:56:14 PST


Wayne Gretzky is the NHL player of the week this week, after he scored
7 goals and 7 assists for 14 points in 4 games. He now has (approx) 96
points in 39 games this season, a phenomenal total. I can hardly wait until
this guy grows up!

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:bosko:

[Frozen]

Does anybody know where I can find a site that looks twenty years into the net's FUTURE so I can a) see if my ******* web-site EVER gets made, and b) get all the horse racing results in advance... :D

[Danielle]

Originally posted by Leaping Larry Jojo


From: Lifan Hua (lifan@marvin.cs.Buffalo.EDU)
Subject: Berlin Wall Broken down?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china, soc.rights.human
View: (This is the only article in this thread) | Original Format
Date: 1989-11-09 22:31:01 PST


I just heard the news of Berlin Wall was broken down today.
Can anyone confirm this news?


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{jaw drops} The Berlin Wall?! Dear G-d, how old is this?

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

That one was in 1989. They must have did these through old Commodores or Packard Bells or whatever :o ...

If you want something feeling REALLY dated, here's one, with the author's name withheld:

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Subject: Does AIDS threaten the general population?
Newsgroups: net.misc
View: (This is the only article in this thread) | Original Format
Date: 1983-06-01 17:10:15 PST


I read in a newspaper article that AIDS is suspected of being
transmitted via the blood. In that same article a "Center for Disease
Control" researcher was then asked if AIDS could be transmitted through
mosquitoes. The researcher did not know.

If the disease can be transmitted through mosquitoes, as can some
other diseases which pass their infections thru blood, then isn't
the whole general population threatened by the outbreak?

Does anyone know?

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[Psycho Fox]

This is my fav.


"Revenge of the Jedi"... Episode 6 in the Star Wars saga, has just finished filming, according to some friends I have down in Arizona.

The release date for us humans that want to see it is still the summer of 1983. I guess it takes that long to score all the music, do all the film-editing, prepare all the promo material, and all that junk.

I wish Lucas & Co. would get the thing going a little faster. I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts of the Star Wars series.

Here's a trivia question for other fellow addicts of Star Wars:

Most everyone knows that the original "Star Wars" was episode 4 in the series, and "The Empire Strikes Back" was episode 5.

Who out there knows the new correct TITLE of Episode 4?

Don't get me wrong -- the thing is still called Star Wars by millions of people, but there is a specific title that tells what episode 4 is about. That's what I'm looking for.

Send replies to:

...!decvax!teklabs!tekmdp!randals
-or-
...!ucbvax!teklabs!tekmdp!randals

I'll publish the correct title in about a week.

Randal L. Schwartz (Ran-dahl Calrizzian)
Tektronix Microcomputer Development Products
Beaverton, Oregon (ORR-i-gun, not AWWW-ree-GONE!!)

P.S. How many people have seen SW more than 22 times in the theatre, or at triple speed on video tape (boy, that's fun)? Man I wish we had all the parts by 1997

[Danielle]

1997. *sigh* I remember watching "Star Wars: Episode 4 (A New Hope, for whoever this is to know)" in the theatres...I knew there were some more coming, and I looked at the name of the movie and said, "Mommy! Why didn't you take me to the first three?" :D

[Calhoun07]

I guess so much stays the same after all these years. Lucas is still dragging his feet with Star Wars. I bet if you went back then and told people they would have to wait til 2007 to see the entire Star Wars saga out, and that they would NEVER see episodes 7-9, and still have to wait that long, they would have DIED. Now it's the same thing all over again with the DVDs. :rolleyes: