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What If They Held a Cyberwar and Nobody Came?
Cyber-saber rattling in the US and China has turned out to be nothing more than a few defaced Web sites and some short-lived denial of service attacks. Chinese hackers, incited by the recent US spy plane incident, had threatened to unleash seven days of cyber-terrorism starting on May 1. US hackers responded with counter-threats and promises to vigorously defend American systems. The Whitehouse.gov domain was subjected to a denial of service attack, rendering it unresponsive for a number of hours, but security experts are downplaying the incident. Apparently, in a real cyber-war, planes fall from the sky, the power-grid goes down, and bank machines stop working. The usual media suspects have the usual answers.Wired: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43520,00.html
CNet: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5825982.html
The literature of science is so huge and complex that powerful, sophisticated retrieval tools are a must to search through it. New Scientist has announced that biologists in Norway have developed an experimental computer program that mines the millions of biological articles published annually for references to human genes. The program looks for occurrences of two or more gene names in the same article and links them to terms for biological activity. "Data mining the 'biobibliome'", they call it. The resulting database, PubGene, links any gene with those it is likely to interact with in order of probability and identifies the biological activity it is associated with. This isn't the first time new discoveries have been extracted from existing literature but it's probably the most systematic approach, and one that might reveal additional hidden gems and connections not seen before. Eugene Garfield hinted at this years ago with his research fronts concept, which used citation indexing to identify clusters of research activity. The success of the new technique bears strongly on the free online scientific publishing controversy we told you about in NSD 7.12.
New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999678
NSD 7.12: http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/nsd.07.12.html#BS1#BS1
The release of these State of Georgia execution audio tapes was widely covered in the American media last week. The tapes, recorded by the state for its records, were made public as part of a criminal case. No such documentation has been released since 1936, when US courts ruled that while the media could attend executions, no public recording or broadcasting was allowed. The tapes replay the clinical procedure of checklists and status reports used to put prisoners to death. There is also audio of prisoners' last statements and of one execution gone wrong that had to be "reinitiated". The tapes reveal a clinically calculated death process - an almost mechanical death machine as minutely scripted as a spacecraft launch. The state's execution of its condemned is a highly dispassionate process, a point worth considering in the wider debate on the death penalty itself. Two other sites complement the tapes. Witness to the Execution records the voices of the men and women involved in the execution of inmates at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Tex. The Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-capital punishment group, offers a list of numerous "botched" executions since 1982.
Tapes: http://www.soundportraits.org/on-air/execution_tapes/
Witness: http://www.soundportraits.org/on-air/witness_to_an_execution/
Botched: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/botched.html
AOL Moves to Automated Content Filtering
Because AOL is the 363-kg gorilla of the ISP business, its solutions for common ISP problems attract a great deal of attention. Wired reports that AOL has implemented a content filtering system based on neural net software. When enabled, the system has access to a huge database of Web sites that are grouped into categories by the neural net. The software examines the context of a Web page and classifies it based on content with similar ones - and the filter either lets that group through or not. The system also accepts feedback from users about whether sites should or should not be blocked, honing its performance. AOL hopes this is a more accurate system than manual or keyword classification. An oral sex and health page will not be confused with a page featuring a healthy dose of oral sex, for example. The Wired story makes the important point that a database of such classification data is likely to be of interest to other businesses, especially given that the AOL giant can categorize a huge volume of Web sites on an ongoing basis. The software was developed by a company called RuleSpace.Wired: http://wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,43576,00.html
RuleSpace: http://www.rulespace.com/
2600 Launches First Major Legal Challenge to DMCA
Does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) violate the First Amendment? At issue in a Manhattan federal appeals court is the right to duplicate or copy from digital material that is under copyright. The hacker quarterly 2600, a magazine for hackers and crackers, is up against eight major movie studios in arguing that the DMCA unconstitutionally blocks all use of copyrighted material. No less a legal luminary than Kathleen Sullivan, dean of Stanford Law School, represents 2600 while the movie studios employ Charles Sims of the New York law firm Proskauer Rose. All involved in the case, including the three-judge panel, are sharp and articulate- and they have to be, because the arguments are technically complicated and the outcome will greatly impact the reproduction and distribution of digital material. This is the first major challenge of the DMCA. We get good coverage from the New York Times (NYT) and technical reporting from Slashdot.Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/05/02/1228252.shtml
NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/04/technology/04CYBERLAW.html
Most of us just delete e-mail spam without a moment's thought, but what happens if you take those annoying, unwanted messages seriously and act on them? David Colker decided to find out, and thereon hangs a story - in the LA Times. It should be no surprise that money and sex are the main themes, but weight loss and university degrees measure up, too, in this amusing tale. What David found while following up on a week's worth of spam is at times funny, enlightening, and annoying. Colker does a good job of exposing the seamy side of most of the come-ons with help from experts he enlists to weigh in with damning opinions. The scary thing is that enough spammers must be making enough money to continue clogging the communications channels with their messages. It's sad to think of the gullible and vulnerable being bilked every day for spurious notions and ideas and products generally without merit.
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/features/lat_junk010503.htm
FBI Unleashes Carnivore and Etherpeek
It's pretty clear that the FBI has no intention of letting spy tools such as Carnivore, a potent suite of programs for eavesdropping on Internet traffic, sit idle. Heavily censored documents obtained by the Associated Press under the US Freedom of Information Act detail 24 instances of FBI use of Carnivore or the commercially available and less potent Etherpeek between October 1999 and August 2000. The spy tools were used to monitor distinct criminal activities. One document mentions national security but provides no uncensored details. The documents themselves aren't available but the story will interest those who worry that powerful snooping tools like Carnivore might be misused by overzealous law enforcement agencies insensitive to privacy issues.http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010504/pl/internet_eavesdropping_1.html
Here's a story from CNet about funny numbers although in the end there's nothing funny about this tale of deceit and dependence on a single metric. Site visits and eyeballs used to count for a lot, so when Media Metrix listed eFront Media among the 20 most visited sites last year, eFront landed the financing deals and connections it needed. Now, it seems that some folks at eFront were making false claims that Media Metrix believed basically on trust alone. When Media Metrix finally realized what was up and issued corrected rankings, eFront fell way down the list. eFront's grandiose facade, as a powerhouse Internet aggregator that sold ads to numerous affiliated Web sites, contrasted with its inability to supply the URLs of actual affiliates. The rotting smell of impropriety might have remained a mere faint whiff but for eFront's CEO's stolen and posted ICQ logs we told you about in NSD 7.08. The stink's now a little stronger, amid some rude name-calling and finger-pointing and a lawyer or two in the brew. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated example of latching onto a single, simple unverified metric and using it beyond caution or sense.
CNet: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-5400415-0.html
NSD 7.08: http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/nsd.07.08.html#OC3#OC3
Bruce Perens on Software Patents vs. Free Software
Bruce Perens is widely known in the open source community and widely credited not only with writing much of it, but with popularizing the term. In this article, he persuasively argues that software and business method patents are bad. He says they do not advance science, they have unrealistically long patent periods (20 years, an eternity in software circles), and they promote damaging monopolies. Whether you agree with him or not, the article is worth reading since Bruce, who speaks for many open source advocates, is an important part of the debate.http://perens.com/Articles/Patents.html
Major Security Flaw in Windows 2000 IIS Web Server 5.0
This buffer overflow can give bad guys system-level access to your Win2K Web server machine. Researchers at eEye Digital discovered it and shortly thereafter hackers started to exploit it. A patch is available, and should be installed forthwith. Pass it on.Problem: http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20010501.html
Exploit: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5812964.html
Patch: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-023.asp
Part two of Larry Wall's Perl Apocalypse series, his musings on the design of Perl 6, is now online. It makes a very technical journey into the internals of Perl, and is strictly for those with a good background in computer science or programming language design. If you don't want to rely on us to remind you every time another part comes out, bookmark Larry's author page at Perl.com.
Apocalypse 2: http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/03/wall.html
Larry: http://www.perl.com/pub/au/Wall_Larry
Maybe two. Most of us here at NSD HQ are bored to tears by art and entertainment sites, so we're inclined to favor somebody who at the very least doesn't mind them. On the other hand, it's not a prerequisite by any means. If you think you can write half a dozen entertaining yet information-packed reviews each week or two, and help Regan think of more headlines, send a plain text resume, outlining your previous writing or journalism experience if any (no, it's not required), to writers@netsurf.com and don't call us, we'll call you. We'll sort through the hordes of submissions and let you know what the next step is in a couple of weeks or so. Yes, we do pay.
ONLINE CULTURE
We're secure enough to relate the following story about a news junkie who uses an interesting new tool to weed out the noise from the news. We know you'll always love us, or at least pretend to read us. Craig Burton coded a program called Radio Userland, which aggregates data from human and software robots as well as news feeds. Wired has the story plus a number of interesting and unusual links to news junkie must-visit sites. Just remember who told you first.Story: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,43444,00.html
Radio Userland: http://radio.userland.com/
Bowing to pressure from customers, or so it claims, eBay has announced it will refuse to list items associated with Nazi Germany, the Ku Klux Klan and other organizations that promote intolerance and hatred. It will also start forbidding the sale of items associated with people who have become infamous within the last 100 years. Why do companies feel they must dissemble about why they make decisions like this? Increasingly, companies such as eBay want to operate globally and that often complicates the issue of what they can sell and how they can sell it. Yahoo's legal tussle with the French government over Nazi memorabilia is a case in point. eBay's decision makes good sense from a business perspective - they can leave it at that. To attribute the policy shift to customer wishes, as eBay does at least in part, is press relations puffery, pure and simple. The San Jose Mercury News (the Merc) and CNet tell the tale.
Merc: http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/ebay050401.htm
CNet: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-5813167.html
Nazi Auctions Migrate from Yahoo, eBay
The migration is the obvious result given that Yahoo and eBay have shut down trading in these kind of items and that the market for Nazi memorabilia remains robust. In the wake of the banning of these so-called "hate" items, the trading traffic has moved to new, smaller sites. In a classic example of unintended consequences, the collectors are moving to sites hosted by real pro-Nazi or other hate groups. This new traffic provides an unintended boon to exactly those elements the opponents of such trade don't wish to enrich. A Wired story has links to several such sites and quotes from their happy operators. It's worth noting that the evidence of lists of items for sale indicates that the vast majority of Nazi memorabilia trading seems to be done by military history buffs and has nothing to do with the ideology.http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,43610,00.html
Yahoo Cracking Down on User Porn Content
After recently deciding to stop selling pornographic items, Yahoo is apparently working on scrubbing the rest of its network clean of adult content. The company is reportedly reworking its club message boards and chat rooms so that adult content is harder to find. The company will also stop accepting banner ads, classified ads, and auction items with adult themes and will step up monitoring and policing of message boards and clubs. This is a difficult issue for the company to win on, since the move is likely to cost it revenue, but if it doesn't do it, it will get criticized by conservative groups. CNN reports.CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/05/02/yahoo.porn.ap/index.html
Dotcommers have lost their jobs, their stock options, and now they're losing their expensive cars. As companies die and lay-offs escalate in Silicon Valley, many formerly wealthy but now jobless dotcommers are finding it hard to make car payments. These are boom times for repo men, the guys who retrieve cars whose users have missed payments and return them to the rightful owners - the banks. MSNBC has the sad but oddly satisfying story.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/568651.asp?0nm=C17O
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Did Your Ancestors Come through Ellis Island?
A substantial portion of American immigrants landed and were processed at Ellis Island, very near the Statue of Liberty. The island is now restored and a national monument. Most of the paperwork the immigrants generated still exists and has been entered into a spectacular genealogy database by Mormon volunteers. Searching is versatile and easy. Once you find the person you want, you can also see a photo and some text about the ship the person arrived on, and even the page of the actual manifest recording the person's particulars. Not all names are currently accessible, although more are added weekly (or more frequently). Free registration is required for more than ample access; a $45 yearly fee gives users additional access and the ability to store searches and personal scrapbooks. Warning: This wonderful and amazing site has received wide publicity and is very busy. It can be difficult to access. We suggest your equivalent of 0800 GMT as the best time to visit.http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/
Very Strange Web Page Counter/Game
PageNetPets are traffic counters for Web sites. They're free, pretty good, offer lots of choices, and even have decent statistical functions. Some are animated, some are not. Very oddly, the animated counters have some unusual features, like guard and attack modes. If you wish, your PageNetPet can attack and vanquish other PageNetPet counters on the Web (all keep counting even in their graves). You can "protect" your counter by increasing traffic and setting it to guard mode. The selection of counters is large; you're sure to find an appropriate counter icon. Given the way the counters work, privacy seems well served. The PageNetPet doesn't appear to be keeping personal data for itself.http://www.pagenetpets.com/
How Does Your Broadband ISP Stack Up?
Users preparing to join the broadband surge (once you try it, there's no going back) have lots of choices. The DSL Reports archive has a frequently updated table of sampled speeds of service of most of the major cable and DSL providers. There's a huge amount of data and you can access almost all of it. The table is dynamic; rankings change weekly but stay relatively stable. Our reviewer has some quibbles with the statistical methodology, but the table is quite useful. The remainder of the DSL Reports site has a wealth of information on DSL and individual providers. It's a worthwhile place to visit prior to making your move to high Web speed and a good place to go to see how well you've chosen after you've made the move.http://www.dslreports.com/archive/
Microsoft Tech Support vs. the Psychic Friends Network
OK, so we're reporting on this a bit late, but it's as true today as it ever was. This "study" was originally published in the fall of 1997, and you need to know the context. The site we're pointing you to is the site of a Mac users group, so it might be a bit biased. That said, some students were struggling with Access database issues; they had to call someone for help. They pitted two support hotlines against each other to see how they would fare: Microsoft Technical Support and the Psychic Friends Network. You can probably figure out the result without moving your mouse, but it's a very entertaining article anyhow. You have to wonder if it would have been more scientific if they'd created a control group who called, for instance, the pizza delivery guy.http://www.bmug.org/news/articles/MSvsPF.html
If you liked the recent homemade Arabic/Swedish video of an Azar Habib song (the song, "Hatten Ar Din", is in Arabic, the transcribed words are nonsense Swedish), our readers have found even better treasures in the same vein. The new music video is called "Ansiktsburk" in Swedish, which is "Face Jar" in English. The video actually uses photos of Habib, and like "Hatten Ar Din" is loud, insistent, and addictively catchy. Take that as a warning. Our reviewer can't stop humming/singing it. There's also a reverse site where a Swedish group sings it in Swedish, with Arabic subtitles.
Arabic singing: http://www.kramgo.se/ansiktsburk/
Swedish singing: http://www.afyra.com/nervis/ansiktsburk.html
Bottomless Portal of Games and Cartoons
Streaming media cartoons and games are commonplace these days, so having a game and cartoon portal makes sense. Finding the cartoon or game that is the latest must-see is now simple. The range on the HappyKipper site is staggering. There's a huge number of cartoon links alone, ranging from mainstream type strips to some that are truly odd and exotic. The (non-commercial) game selection is similarly breathtaking. The navigation system is (our reviewer hopes) unique to the site, but once mastered works well enough. The site would be a lot easier to plow through if it lost the salmon type on the gold background. Special symbols make it easy to avoid or go straight to potentially offensive sites.http://happykipper.com/
The ComedyLab is well named. Some of the material is sellable, but much of it needs a lot more research and development. It's a fairly large place, though, so if you're willing to spend some of your precious life pawing around here, you'll likely find something that makes your funny bone feel all a-tingle. Frankly, it took us a while. Is it ready for prime-time? Not yet. Is it a dog? Yep, it's a lab (rim shot!). It may not retrieve, but at least it won't pee on your floors (rim shot! rim shot!).
http://www.thecomedylab.com/
The Jesus Dress-Up site is rude, offensive, and - to some - humorous. Through the miracle of Java, you can dress an illustration of Jesus in a wide variety of clothing. There are bunny slippers, biker T-shirts, pink tuxes, and snorkeling gear. It's easy to create strange and offensive combinations. As a chain-jerker the site's wildly successful; as a good idea, the case is far more dubious. Anyone can be offended here, not only Christians. At least the technology is interesting and well-handled.
http://www.jesusdressup.com/
"If chickens did grow on trees, I'd be out there right now planting eggs." We've often thought so, as well. Unfortunately, chickens don't grow on trees, at least not naturally, so here's a little place that'll bring you up to speed on raising and butchering meat-breed chickens. Actually, there's more emphasis here on growing wildflowers - which is only fitting, as you generally want a lot of flowers in attendance at a death, and it might as well apply to chickens, too. Or maybe as a garnish. You'll need RealPlayer for the streaming video. You can just get to the meat of the matter by taking in the storyboards, but the video stream format is interesting, and educational as well. We knew that chickens didn't grow on trees, but we thought it was common knowledge that they grow on Styrofoam platters.
http://www.encyclovids.com/
Practical Pet Care Info for Practical and Impractical Pets
The PPC site is vast repository of basic information about pets of all kinds, from standard mammals to a variety of reptiles and crustaceans - even spiders (but no chickens). The information provided will help you select a pet with a compatible temperament (do crayfish have temperaments?), provide basic yearly cost estimates, and warn you of potential health problems. If you already have a pet, there's wealth of data and advice on care and, if needed, on behavior problems. You also get links to more in-depth advice and forums where questions can be asked. The information has been gathered from a wide variety of sources, and varies in quality, although it's always acceptable. For a wide range of pet information, this site has few peers. If your question's answer isn't on the site, it can be found in one of the many links.http://www.bairey.net/ppc/
Joining the ranks of sites preying on the insecurities of netizens is SiteCritique.net, a spot where you can submit your Web site for criticism. The plus is that you get every template imaginable without having to try to emulate them yourself while designing your site, which is an amazing deal. You've got to join to review or submit a site for review, but the membership is free. Bravely, the creators have put the site itself up for analysis. Here's what we'd say. The registration screen asks you for your computer configuration, a lot of which could be autodetected if users were given the option to have JavaScript figure out their set-up for them. The Add a Site to Be Critiqued screen in the registration process should have an easier exit to the Critique a Site page for those who prefer to lob rocks from glass houses. Finally, the rating page could easily have the information in the Critiquing Guide on the page itself next to the appropriate fields. Oh... and pick either "usability" or "useability" and go with it.
http://www.sitecritique.net/
Interested in creating your own website, but don't know where to start? You could buy a product to walk you through the process, or you could spend some time reading up on the concepts. Or you could drop over here and take a look at some of the free tools and advice offered, some of which is sound (don't download without checking for virii), and some of which is not (use Go!Zilla download manager). Umm, Go!Zilla has been identified by several sources as what has come to be called "spyware". In any event, we believe it's far safer to employ long-established, tried-and-true download protocols. Aside from that little issue (and a few links that don't seem to work any more) this is a great source for tools to help you gel that elusive Web site concept into something a bit more solid. Without a lot of geekspeak to duck around, it's about as user-friendly as any place we've found for Web advice and tool links.
http://www.freesitebuilder.co.uk/
ONLINE TRAVEL
The personal Web site of the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a model of its kind - an unlimited budget and a dedicated staff clearly help. The site has it all: elegance, beauty, performance, and superior content. The information on Jordan and the King's residences is fascinating. Given Jordan's location, it is a pleasant surprise that the site is neither political nor polemic, just useful and informative - it's a lot like the king himself in that way. The Hashemites history is clearly the best section, but there's also plenty of good information for prospective tourists and people looking for current perspectives on Jordan. In the end though, the site's brilliant design is what will stick with you.http://www.kingabdullah.jo/
"Am I Going Down?" has a pretty narrow focus but nonetheless an interesting one, in a perverse sort of way. No, not that way! Pull your mind out of the gutter! Sheesh! Nope, this is a site about travel. Air travel, for the most part, although they can hook you up with some good deals on hotels, as well - assuming you survive the flight. The quirky draw of this site is the personalized mortality statistics it offers. It's sort of reassuring to find that a flight from the Pacific Northwest to Southern California yields a chance of dying on the flight of 1 in 9,932,398. Heck, we have a better shot at winning Powerball. Of course, these are just estimates. Your odds may vary. Ours almost always do.
http://www.amigoingdown.com/
Those fun-loving Nepalese are at it again, featuring highlights from the latest rounds of the WEPA Invitational Polo Tournament, which is held each year at the Tiger Tops Lodge, adjacent to Royal Chitwan National Park. The trick, here, is that the game isn't played from horseback. Each team consists of four Asian elephants, four mahouts (elephant drivers, for you proboscidean-impaired readers), and four players armed with extended mallets at least two metres long. This game has rules, and the folks are sticklers for the rules. No elephant may lie down in front of the goal nor may one pick up the polo ball with its trunk. Doing so constitutes a foul, and the opposing team is awarded a free hit. Moreover, "Sugar cane or rice balls packed with vitamins (molasses and rock salt) shall be given to the elephants at the end of each match and a cold beer, or soft drink, to the elephant drivers and not vice versa." What's WEPA? It's the World Elephant Polo Association - where have you been? Wanna know the oddest thing about this whole thing? Iceland won the tournament - Iceland!
http://elephantpolo.com/
FLOTSAM & JETSAM
You always think of the perfect reply a few seconds too late. While this site can't stop you from missing a perfect reply, it can and does relate many good replies you can store and use. Right now the collection's sparse, but with the potential to cure an affliction that affects all, it's worth visiting regularly.http://www.jamesedmunds.com/shoulda/
Can't Remember When You Last Rotated Your Tires?
This site generates e-mail reminders for preventative automobile maintenance, and allows online record keeping. However, it needs more intelligence. For instance, it asks to remind you to replace a timing belt or a timing chain, but if you already know which you have, you probably don't need a reminder.http://www.ownersite.com/
This company guarantees "our products to be absolute shit or your money back." How brave. If it lives and craps in Australia, these folks scoop it up, dry it, and sell it. Want to really impress somebody? They offer a gilded Tasmanian Devil turd paperweight for a mere $36.
http://www.roopooco.com/
Online Life and Searches for Newbies
Although it uses a cliched background, the EraNova site is a series of articles aimed at folks new to online life and culture. Past issues are archived and easily accessed, and there's a valuable emphasis on how to find whatever information you're looking for.http://www.eranova.com/eranova.htm
SOFTWARE
Mozilla 0.9 Web Browser Released
The once (and future?) king of the open-source browsers gets yet another pre-release. By all accounts, this version is significantly faster and more stable than previous ones. Give it a try - and if you have a technical bent, our informants tell us you should try compiling from source and turning off debugging for even better performance gains.http://www.mozilla.org/
CORRECTIONS
Luke Griffin, one of the maintainers of the Wright Air Development Center Digital Collection, has a beef with our Flotsam and Jetsam blurb on his site. Problem is, he's right. Here's his rebuttal, edited. "My main concern is that the main purpose of the site is not even mentioned by the reviewer. If the reviewer had bothered to read the Scope and Purpose, he would have realized that the main goal of our site is to digitize thousands of space-race technical reports from the 1950s and 1960s. It is hard to find these reports anywhere else, and we feel that we are opening up these reports to a wide audience. Instead the reviewer clicked on the only thing he recognized, the Roswell Report, which is a very minor part of the site. I can appreciate a bad review with constructive criticism. But to completely overlook the main goal of the site, not comment on the history information we are delivering, and focus on two flashes and one PDF is irresponsible." Look for the whole thing to appear in the next Letters to the Editor, ETA 2003.http://www.gl.iit.edu/wadc/
In last issue's "New Proposed E-Mail Standard RFCs Released", we spelled Jon Postel's first name "John". We should know better, having written an obituary for him in NSD 4.31. Here's another site.
http://www.postel.org/remembrances/
In last issue's "Google Makes Available Deja.com Usenet Archive", we wrote that Google's Usenet archive dates back to 1985. The actual year is 1995.