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Google just announced that they've expanded their Usenet Archive to go all the way back to 1981! They made a big Announcement with lots of 'Firsts': First mention of Microsoft, the Commodore 64, first post from AOL, first serious spam, etc etc.

So I've been going a little nuts going over my old posts. Here's the first one of mine I could find. (Actually, the searching mechanism seems a little buggy, you can see it by fiddling with the dates, so it's probably not my first first post.)

Ok. Time to prove my true navel-gazing geekdom. Here's a handy chart of all the accounts I used to post, and related info:

account	dates	#	#/day
kisrael@pearl.tufts.edu	28 Apr 1993 - 14 May 1993	9	.56
kisrael@jade.tufts.edu	14 Sep 1993 - 05 Jun 1994	102	.39
kisrael@emerald.tufts.edu	15 Jun 1994 - 27 Feb 1995	139	.54
kisrael@diamond.tufts.edu	23 Mar 1995 - 25 May 1997	486	.62
kisrael@allegro.cs.tufts.edu*	26 May 1997 - 28 Sep 1997	265	2.12
kisrael@allegro.cs.tufts.edu	28 Sep 1997 - 29 Jul 1999	1950	2.9
kisrael@andante.cs.tufts.edu	03 Aug 1999 - 12 Jul 2000	873	2.5
kisrael@andante.eecs.tufts.edu	15 Jul 2000 - 01 Sep 2001	962	2.33
kirkspam@alienbill.com	01 Sep 2001 - 11 Dec 2001	483	4.8

*for some reason this group of posts only shows up when you search for posts before Sep 28 1997

I'm a little alarmed that the average posts per day has doubled lately. It may be a spike, since it's a smaller than average sample, and I posted a lot right after September 11th...

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Funny of the Moment

> Actually, I have heard rumors that Howard Stern
> and H Ross Perot are one and the same. (Have we
> ever seen them in the same room, huh? huh?)

No, that's not true: in fact I have them both in my room right now:
        say Hello, Ross:

        Hello! I'd l

That's enough Ross, thank you. Howard?

        This is fucking ridicu

Thank you, Howard.

Kirk "and the truth shall make you free" Israel

Every once in a while I'm worried that I used to be funnier.