I just started a game where I work that's turned out to be pretty fun. Try to find the oldest posting you've made on Google. Posts have to come from Google's main page, not any of the subsections (i.e. Groups). Currently the oldest I can find from myself is January of 1999, so I don't go too far back. ;)
On Friday 13 April 2007 09:14:28 am Kyle Sexton wrote:
I just started a game where I work that's turned out to be pretty fun. Try to find the oldest posting you've made on Google. Posts have to come from Google's main page, not any of the subsections (i.e. Groups). Currently the oldest I can find from myself is January of 1999, so I don't go too far back. ;)
Interesting, and interesting how quickly it changes. Last time I googled my nick, I was in most of the hits on the first page, including a post to a samba list from March 2000. Now I'm buried in twenty pages of hits, and couldn't even find that one without some additional keywords. It's been may be six months at most. Lots of new "jhutchins" are getting active I guess.
I can, however, claim a pretty old post: Something I wrote for a FIDONet Echo back before the internet went public is archived on-line.
It's also interesting to see how fast Google picks up new posts. I've made two specific posts about getting a new LCD panel for a certain machine I just picked up (IBM NetVista x40i) and both posts hit the first page of Google searches within 24 hours.
I can go back to June '99 pretty easily, though I've been "online" since Jan. '94. Now if I could just remember my ISP and username from back then and searching back would be much easier.
It's also interesting how many places seem to keep mirrors of KCLUG. In my quick search just now I found many of my posts here showing up in archives and mirrors on several different sites.
Jon.
On 4/13/07, Kyle Sexton ks@mocker.org wrote:
I just started a game where I work that's turned out to be pretty fun. Try to find the oldest posting you've made on Google. Posts have to come from Google's main page, not any of the subsections (i.e. Groups). Currently the oldest I can find from myself is January of 1999, so I don't go too far back. ;)
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This is scary:
Comments: Authenticated sender is david.ambs@pop3.theheart.com From: "David" david.ambs@pop3.theheart.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.52) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:55:12 +0000
Sucks though, was only unsubscribing from a Debian list. By that time I realized I was gonna run with Slackware =]
I remember Pegasus was the only thing that could really run on my 386 w/2MB, I was running Win 3.1 at the time. For a few years, I had a SLIP connection through Heart of the City BBS, was the only way I could afford to get net access at the time.. being like, 15... funny stuff.
-dave
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On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Jon Pruente wrote:
It's also interesting to see how fast Google picks up new posts. I've made two specific posts about getting a new LCD panel for a certain machine I just picked up (IBM NetVista x40i) and both posts hit the first page of Google searches within 24 hours.
I can go back to June '99 pretty easily, though I've been "online" since Jan. '94. Now if I could just remember my ISP and username from back then and searching back would be much easier.
It's also interesting how many places seem to keep mirrors of KCLUG. In my quick search just now I found many of my posts here showing up in archives and mirrors on several different sites.
Jon.
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