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Re:Microsoft Coffee by brundolf on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:21PM (#26672835)
Remember that the prank preceded the mainstream web, and MS PR clearly went to great lengths to cover it up. I don't think the internet was "remembering everything" yet at that point
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Re:Microsoft Coffee by iso1210 on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:39PM (#26673052)
Usenet would have, there would be mentions on a pro or anti (mainly anti) microsoft group about it. It was 1996, not the stone age

Google has lost a lot of old posts from those days, but I'd be surprised if it would have lost all of them.

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Re:Microsoft Coffee by dannyw on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:21PM (#26673548)
Google's public index is just the short head, maybe even less than 5% of the internet by pages. Old stuff is more or less all pushed out unless its popular.
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Re:Microsoft Coffee by lupire on Friday April 02, 2021 @07:10PM (#26676875)
April 1996 was a long time ago, almost the dawn of the Internet as it relates to Microsoft.

Internet Explorer only launched in 1995, and the anti-Linux Halloween Documents were 1998.

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