The Usenet is not only the refuge of pedophiles and neo-Nazis.
It includes thousands of academically rigorous and research
inclined discussion groups which morph with intellectual
trends and fashionable subjects. More than twenty years of
wisdom and erudition are buried in servers all over the world.
Scholars often visit Usenet in their pursuit of complementary
knowledge or expert advice. The Usenet is also the
documentation of Western intellectual history in the last
three decades. In it invaluable. Google's decision to abandon
the internal links between Deja messages means the
disintegration of the hyperlinked fabric of this resource -
unless Google comes up with an alternative (and expensive)
solution.
Google is offering a better, faster, more multi-layered and
multi-faceted access to the entire archive. But its brush with
the more abrasive side of the open source movement brought to
the surface long suppressed issues. This may be the single
most important contribution of this otherwise not so opportune
transaction.
Maps of Cyberspace
By: Sam Vaknin
"Cyberspace.
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