The purchase of Deja News
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:49:58 -0500
From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.org.unix-heritage.general
Subject: Re: Steve Bellovin recounts the history of USENET
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my father was the head sysadmin at Deja News at the time of their
purchase by Google and I may have recounted this story before but it's
worth sharing again. Google's entire purchase of Deja News involved a
couple of Google engineers flying to Austin with a large disk array,
letting it mirror over a weekend, and then flying back to California.
Google did not, as far as I recall, take possession of any physical
assets whatsoever.
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Authors: ag