Warez, Irrational Pessismism, Bermuda Triangle

[Dave Wilton]

> According to http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest/CUDS8/cud853, the
> Usenet group alt.binaries.warez was in existence in 1996 when it was
> being deleted from a server, so it was likely founded sometime
> before then. Does anyone know where you can find when a Usenet group
> was started?

If the group started post-1981, you should be able to find the earliest
messages on Google (Advanced Groups search). They may not have the very
first messages for a particular group, but they'll probably come pretty
close.

For alt.binaries.warez, Google has a post from 13 Dec 1995. Google doesn't
archive binaries groups, but you can still get a feel for the date from
crossposting. There are a total of 3 crossposts to alt.binaries.warez that
month and about 30 in Jan 1996. So it looks like a December 1995 date for
its inception.

Google also has posts to alt.warez.ibm-pc.apps from Oct 1995. It also has
December 1995 posts to alt.2600.warez.