{"id":87613814,"date":"2005-01-10T00:55:26","date_gmt":"2005-01-10T08:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613814"},"modified":"2005-01-17T19:01:05","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T03:01:05","slug":"sorta-like-claiming-you-were-at-woodstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613814","title":{"rendered":"Sorta like claiming you were at Woodstock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googlegroups\/archive_announce_20.html\" target=\"_blank\">This link<\/a> will take you to Google&#8217;s 20 year archive of the Newgroups (UUNET).<\/p>\n<p>Starts with the earliest post they&#8217;ve got (looks like it worked slightly before they thought it would):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups-beta.google.com\/group\/net.general\/msg\/205f828a7595fc94\" target=\"_blank\">Rusty is right (or is that &#8220;Rusty is Wright&#8221;?) &#8211; we have ALL in our .ngfile<br \/>\nso I tend to forget this. ALL.ALL may or may not work, but ALL certainly does.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and ends at the first posts about 9-11 (at 5:51am):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups-beta.google.com\/group\/atl.arno\/browse_frm\/thread\/cbdc57ac79725f87\" target=\"_blank\">Plane crashed into World Trade Center near the top<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think my personal timeline kicks in around 1990, &#8217;cause I remember reading about <a href=\"http:\/\/groups-beta.google.com\/group\/rec.games.frp\/browse_frm\/thread\/fae9cd9669bab8f\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> on some of the FidoNet feeds on BBSs (thanks to Heart of Gold II bbs, Hi <a href=\"http:\/\/alexcruise.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex<\/a>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This link will take you to Google&#8217;s 20 year archive of the Newgroups (UUNET). Starts with the earliest post they&#8217;ve got (looks like it worked slightly before they thought it would): Rusty is right (or is that &#8220;Rusty is Wright&#8221;?) &#8211; we have ALL in our .ngfile so I tend to forget this. ALL.ALL may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87613814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87613814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}