<nettime> it is the end of history

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

While looking for something else, I found unrelated interesting stuff 
(as it usually happens):

https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0109/maillist.html

This is nettime archive from September 2001, and the good stuff is not 
just after September 12 (nettime was not particularly impressed by the 
NYC demolition job.) The number of interesting postings is incredible 
(and I wasn't even trolling nettime then.)

[ Regarding 11092001+ postings, I liked profound predictions - some 
totally wrong, some on the spot. We should remember who did which:
"What I am worried about is massive surveillance of all aspects of
life: of our phone calls, of our email, and of our physical movements." ]

Things were happening. Things are not happening. It's not just that they 
migrated out of nettime, they stopped happening. We collectively did 
something stupid.

I'm tempted to analyze nettime archives and plot the decay of the public 
comment. When did it start? Did it level off? Is it getting worse? It's 
funny that the ultimate utility of nettime is documenting the demise of 
the comment.

I am not aware of any other medium that provides such good insights into 
real-time history of commentariat from 17 years ago. If anyone knows 
about other similar publicly accessible archives, please let me know.

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