egg changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://git.io/JqLs2 | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> egg|nomz|egg: generally if your eyes are dewing over, that's not the weather. | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer. | We can haz pdf | Logs: https://esper.irclog.whitequark.org/kspacademia
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<raptop>
!8ball Is octaman an ambush predator that lives in RVs?
<galois>
raptop: no
<SnoopJ>
probably the best part of the movie
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<raptop>
arxiv.org went up on august 14, 1991
<raptop>
There is a small but non-zero chance that someone in the then-extant Soviet Union used the site
<raptop>
hrm, apparently not like that, and it didn't exist as a www site until 1993
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<raptop>
huh, NASA is going to have a livestream of the annular eclipse
<X>
raptop, what about a pre www site?
<SnoopJ>
he means that arXiv the thing-wot-holds-papers predates arXiv.org the website-wot-provides-an-interface-to-that (it was originally a mailbox, then later gained FTP, Gopher, and WWW access)
<SnoopJ>
(I think)
<raptop>
there was a gopher thing, but I get the impresion that in 1991 it was just a mailing list
<SnoopJ>
yea
<SnoopJ>
Emailing individuals saturated their storage space and "an inbox everyone has access to" was a practical solution, is I think the rough sketch of it
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