Omnimaga
General Discussion => Other Discussions => Humour and Jokes => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on April 09, 2014, 12:00:46 am
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Sorry, but I couldn't resist :trollface:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.sport.hockey/c7RyFzZYHoo
If you thought that 4 years necroposts on Omni were bad, the discussion thread linked above and the last reply were posted over a year before I was even born. O.O
Btw, I knew that those groups existed in the early 90's before internet became mainstream, but I didn't realize that any Internet content from the early 80's would still be up today.
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Omg DJ you are breaking records. *.*
I wonder if it is possible to do a 40 years necro. XD
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Oh wow DJ that's quite the record.
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Actually after a quick bit of googling it seems you literally pwned some records. :P
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I found better...
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.sport.hockey/i3OOonEf4Ck
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30 years 6 months 25 days compared to DJ's 29 years 2 months 5 days. Sorry about that DJ :P
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Aw D: (now I wish their search engine returned anything from 81. For me it only worked with 90's results or higher. X.x)
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Holy shit those are so intensive necros O.O
And my personal record is *only* 10 years :P
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I don't remember how far I necroed. :P
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:o Wow, that's pretty wild!
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I will send myself a notice in 35 years via that one service to necro this topic.
Actually I should really try to do that.
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XD that's awesome...
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The funny thing, though, is that if you are lucky and find a video game-related board (I know there is a NES discussion group from the 90's), you could reply to an Atari 2600 topic from 1982 with the game strategy using today's tricks and stuff, and it would almost be a valid necropost :P
Omg DJ you are breaking records. *.*
I wonder if it is possible to do a 40 years necro. XD
It will be in May 2021. :P
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I was thinking about doing it nowadays. :P
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Please someone explain me why/how Google Groups have some posts predating the Internet? Were those from message boards on primitive forms of network like the Minitel?
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Mind blown O.O
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Please someone explain me why/how Google Groups have some posts predating the Internet? Were those from message boards on primitive forms of network like the Minitel?
Technically the Internet has been around since the 60's in one form or another and Usenet existed since 1979 or 1980. Google Groups simply archived old Usenet messages dating from 1981 to present. It's a common misconception that Internet has started existing in 1995 because that's around when the first big websites and web browsers started appearing.
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ARPANET has been around since the 60's, but only for military and interuniversity communication, but it's only in the 90's companies started selling Internet connections and HTTP was invented, thus beginning its common withspread use.
Also fun fact: Queen Elizabeth II sent her first email in 1976.
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I knew about ARPANET, Usenet and stuff, but wasn't that stuff used for research / military usage only? I thought it was with the popularization of the internet that those networks started to be used outside that range, hence why I'm surprised about that hockey necropost.
I have seen logs from usenet discussion, for example those in which Torvalds announces he wrote a basic OS for Intel 386 processors (Which later became Linux), but those are usually programming or research oriented.
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I guess you could do whatever you want to on university computer science labs back then...
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I knew about ARPANET, Usenet and stuff, but wasn't that stuff used for research / military usage only? I thought it was with the popularization of the internet that those networks started to be used outside that range, hence why I'm surprised about that hockey necropost.
I have seen logs from usenet discussion, for example those in which Torvalds announces he wrote a basic OS for Intel 386 processors (Which later became Linux), but those are usually programming or research oriented.
I have the feeling that mailing lists became mainstream in the 80's, which probably explains why Usenet was popular back then. HTTP, on the other hand, only arrived in the mid 90's.