Re: <nettime> it is the end of history

[Magnus Boman <mabmab@gmail.com>]

I admire in particular the constructive attitude of including metadata like:

>Copyright 2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. 

For matching quality and attitude, you can still crawl Usenet for free, even if commercial third party services pretend it's been commoditized. I re-read great posts of people I miss AFK sometimes, it works well as an Ariadne thread for me.

M.

On Sun, 30 Dec 2018, 07:05 Morlock Elloi, <morlockelloi@gmail.com> wrote:

While looking for something else, I found unrelated interesting stuff
(as it usually happens):

https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0109/maillist.html

This is nettime archive from September 2001, and the good stuff is not
just after September 12 (nettime was not particularly impressed by the
NYC demolition job.) The number of interesting postings is incredible
(and I wasn't even trolling nettime then.)

[ Regarding 11092001+ postings, I liked profound predictions - some
totally wrong, some on the spot. We should remember who did which:
"What I am worried about is massive surveillance of all aspects of
life: of our phone calls, of our email, and of our physical movements." ]

Things were happening. Things are not happening. It's not just that they
migrated out of nettime, they stopped happening. We collectively did
something stupid.

I'm tempted to analyze nettime archives and plot the decay of the public
comment. When did it start? Did it level off? Is it getting worse? It's
funny that the ultimate utility of nettime is documenting the demise of
the comment.

I am not aware of any other medium that provides such good insights into
real-time history of commentariat from 17 years ago. If anyone knows
about other similar publicly accessible archives, please let me know.

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