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From: daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer museum-was: ihnp4 powered down
Summary: how bout a USENET "time machine"?
Keywords: computer donation ihnp4 museum
Message-ID: <522@gonzo.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 89 02:26:19 GMT
References: <244@att.ATT.COM> <1950@cucstud.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower)
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Organization: Gonzo Media Group
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In <1950@cucstud.UUCP> wb8foz@cucstud.UUCP (David Lesher,Guest) writes:
>In article <244@att.ATT.COM> dhp@att.ATT.COM (Price) writes
>about donating to the computer museum.
>
>Hmm, it seems to me the computer museum is the ideal place to
>provide good publicity to the net...
>A terminal with 'rn' running all the time,
>properly set up (no alt.conspiracy or talk.bizarre ;-}) would
>provide great exposure to the fact Internet does something
>other than feed worms...
>	Besides some newsreader hacks (such as resetting the
>.newsrc file for each visitor) all that is needed is a
>terminal, a friendly local port, and a modem.
>Any comments?

This is the start of a neat idea.  More interesting would be a net 
"time-machine", where you'd get different slices of the net at various
times.  Setup three or four time slices - way way back, way back, just
pre-uunet and nntp (circa "death of the backbone cabal") and "now".  

Does anyone have a spool directory on tape from the dawn of time?  How
about a backup containing article 1 of net.general on a historically
significant system?

(You'd probably want to limit visitors to 10 minutes an era.)

-dB
-- 
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