Google and the Net

[Tim May]

On Tuesday, October 9, 2001, at 02:40 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:

>>>> Steve Mynott[SMTP:steve at tightrope.demon.co.uk] wrote:
>>>> Every thought how bad the net would be if google went away?
>>>>
>>> Actually, us old timers remember what it was like before google,
>>
>> Hypertext in general is doubleplus good.
>>
>> I remember Gopher, Archie, and all of those crufty tools.
>
> You are all missing the point.  Google was being praised for its 
> specific
> feature of acting as an internet-wide cache of old versions of web 
> pages.
> Prior to 9/11 the page in question held inflammatory content praising
> bin Laden.  Now it's been pulled.  The google cache lets us see the
> previous version, thwarting the efforts of the page owner to hide his
> earlier sentiments.

I'm not "missing the point." I chose to talk about something else. Deal 
with it.


Fuck off.



--Tim May, Occupied America
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety 
deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.