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Alright people, here’s how to find weird internet history:
• Choose a topic (Skype, digital cash, w/e)
• Google it. Restrict results to pre-2005 or w/e
• Look for articles
• Read em, they’ll mention stuff that died
• Lookup dead stuff on @internetarchive
That’s it
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Most of the stuff I tweet, really. As a specific example, I was reading about Skype's history and it mentioned different online dating services that used phone calls or VoIP, mentioning this service:https://twitter.com/backus/status/1056685682695884800 …
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Sites can push fake publish dates through in he meta-tags so that's pretty useless. Try finding the first bitcoin mention on google.
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It's not about finding the first, it's about exploring a period of time
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HTML meta tags? I thought Google haven't been using those for indexing anymore since ~2000-2001.
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For a while there I was thinking about just doing a series on great sites I remember from back in the day. The two most obvious examples for me: 1) http://realultimatepower.net/ 2) http://explodingdog.com/ Alas I never did it tho (or haven't, anyway)
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For more medium-term, look at the list of apps you've authorized for access to twitter and scroll way back. https://twitter.com/settings/sessions …
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This is useful, thank you.
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Totally interesting idea. But when I go to google advanced search the dates available only go back a year. (Ios safari browser)
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Use custom and only set the to field?
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Google only. I could find a custom setting in duckduckgo or Yahoo UI
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On the desktop page there's a custom time-frame option, either I missed it or it's missing on the mobile page. Weird history here I come!
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and of course, dead DOS games https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games …
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I do this for current large tech companies and read the news from those times. How many times media predicted that all of them are going to die. Helps with perspective.
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