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Re:The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations fro... by not2b on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @08:02PM (#41794151)
Everything was digital at UC Berkeley back in the early 1990s and before.
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Re:The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations fro... by Cheer2171 on Thursday October 10, 2024 @08:48AM (#41798267)
> Everything was digital at UC Berkeley back in the early 1990s and before.

I can't believe I have to say this, but not every university is UC-Berkeley. Digitization isn't free and requires specialized labor and technology.

And are you really saying that in the late 1980s, all dissertations were submitted digitally? In what format?

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Re:The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations fro... by not2b on Friday October 11, 2024 @11:18AM (#41810250)
I should have qualified this with "the engineering departments at UC Berkeley". Everything we put out (papers, technical reports, open source software) was on the Internet. Formats were varied; LaTeX and Postscript were commonly used. PDF a bit later.
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