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I used to have a pretty good screen scraper that would search queries on the Google Groups Usenet archives. Inspired by images like this http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_clones?file=Doom_clone_vs_fi... | |
I was able to dredge some pretty amazing historic articles. Some examples: | |
First impressions of the GNU manifesto: | |
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.arts.animation/n... | |
Furst impressions of SNES | |
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.video/gt3T... | |
First impressions of PERL | |
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sources.d/QPt28... | |
First impressions of Eminem | |
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.music.hip-hop/oL... | |
Steve jobs leaves in 85 | |
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.micro.mac/93SYtB... | |
First impressions of Doom: | |
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.ibm.pc.game... | |
People pissed at apple in 84 | |
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.flame/e4-wxFKyUu... | |
WWW first announced: | |
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.next.announ... |
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