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December 11, 2001

Google now has 20 years

Google now has 20 years of Usenet, online, searchable. Incredible. (Meanwhile: their predecessor and erstwhile competitor, the once-great Altavista, is reduced to silly, annoying, intrusive moving cartoon advertising on the front page. Did anyone tell them it doesn't work? And the grandaddy of them all, Lycos, seems to be some anonymous portal or other. With a dog.)