# Google expands... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 28, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-expands/63583 "2001-04-28T01:06:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-expands/63583/1 "2001-04-28T01:06:33Z")
Just thought you’d like to know. [http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/archive\_announce.html](http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce.html) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-expands/63583/2 "2001-04-28T03:54:55Z")
Hey, that’s a great idea. Let’s get the Reader to buy 4000 linuxboxen for the SDMB! 😃 Oh, wait. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-expands/63583/3 "2001-04-28T04:41:14Z")
Linuxboxen? What language is that? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-expands/63583/4 "2001-04-28T07:17:08Z")
Kat…It’s hackspek. [Look here for explaination.](http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/v/vaxen.html) [And here](http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/b/boxen.html) ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-expands/63583/5 "2001-04-28T15:24:45Z")
Thanks for telling us. Might be better posted in GM so others know too cause I know a lot of them were chewing me out when I said you can read Usenet with Netscape Or IE, which you can. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-expands/63583/6 "2001-04-28T15:26:58Z")
PS: I don’t see any binary newgroups. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-expands/63583/7 "2001-04-29T05:28:20Z")
**handy** , mind if I ask WTF you’re talking about? What does Usenet have to do with anything here? And there are hundreds of newsgroups dedicated to exchanging binaries (ie, everything that’s not ASCII). Your NNTP site may not carry them. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-expands/63583/8 "2001-04-29T08:01:52Z")
Ummm… **handy** is talking about the announcement linked in the OP. > [@](#): > > New! Google has integrated the full Usenet archive formerly maintained by [Deja.com](http://Deja.com) with recent posts to provide complete access to Usenet data since 1995. Although what “GM” he’s talking about I have no clue. It can’t be a typo for GQ, because there appears to be no question in the OP and it can’t be a typo for GD, because there’s no debate in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-expands/63583/9 "2001-04-29T14:43:33Z")
Perhaps the **GM** is a reference to the sig. line of **Narile**. Game something. I’m old and too serious to know. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-expands/63583/10 "2001-04-29T15:05:10Z")
Never has so much time been expended here on one letter. So it should be GQ (General Questions), not GM (General Messages), sorry. friedo, I use SuperNews. Im pretty sure Manny was looking for Usenet through the Web, he should be pretty happy now. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-expands/63583/11 "2001-04-29T15:09:05Z")
[http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,43392,00.html?tw=wn20010427](http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,43392,00.html?tw=wn20010427) ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-expands/63583/12 "2001-04-29T15:10:50Z")
[http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,43392,00.html?tw=wn20010427](http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,43392,00.html?tw=wn20010427)