an antedating "how to"?

[Beth Young]

Thanks for catching that, Hugo!  I did mean the WWW (figuring that OED
lexicographers weren't doing archival research via usenet, though that
might be wrong) but as my brain was thinking WWW, my fingers were typing
"Internet."

Beth


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Good stuff, one correction:
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> > * words for which entries were written before 1990 (i.e., before the
> Internet)
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> Perhaps you meant before the World Wide Web, which was invented in 1989.
> The internet goes back longer, as evidenced by Usenet which goes back to
> around 1981. Usenet is a rich source of antedatings (especially and
> unsurprisingly for internet jargon) and searchable via Google Groups.
> http://groups.google.com/
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> Hugo
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