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Today's question: The @ sign was chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson's Model 33 Teletype for its "at" meaning. What year did this happen? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the...
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Today's quesion: What is a killfile? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a free...
Today's question: A small search engine called 'Google' opened its doors on September 7th, 1998. It was originally given a name because of its unique ability to analyze 'back links' pointing to a given website. It was...
We want everyone to know we are really excited about the trivia contest. We received over 25 correct answers for the trivia contest from April 26th. We decided to create a free one month account for every correct answer...
Here is today's trivia question: When did the "Great Renaming" occur? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the...
We have a winner! H.G from London, England won today's question with the following answer: humanities.*, comp.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, and talk.* H.G. will receive a free month of Newsdemon Newsgroups...
Here is today's usenet trivia question: Name the Big 8 hierarchies The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared the winner....
We have a winner! Harry P. from Athens, Greece provided the following answer: May 11th, 1981 Harry will receive a free month of Newsdemon Newsgroups Service!
Here is today's question: The oldest known Usenet article found in the Archive records in the Groups of Google is from what date? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS...
We have a winner for yesterday's question. J.R. of Paris, France succesfully answered: Some users placed the word "meow" in their killfiles due to several spammer who had invaded many groups. Long story short, these...
Today's question is a little more challenging and might require some research by the average usenet user. Question: Why was the word "meow" placed into many experienced usenetters' "killfiles" in the mid 1990's? The...
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