Jason Kottke takes a sample of content from behind the recently abandoned New York Times Select subscription wall. The archives go back over 150 years, and Kottke dredged up the following gems among others:
- first mention of the World Wide Web
- an early report of Lincoln’s assassination
- report on Germans using mustard gas in WWI
- confirmation of Einstein’s theory of gravity in 1919
Also note that after the wall fell access to a number of columnists blogs is available. Many reacted to the decision to cancel TimesSelect as overdue, calling the NY Times, ahem, “behind the times.” Even though I am not a regular reader, I am glad they did bring down the wall and I only hope some other anachronistic media such as the Globe and Mail catch up.
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ZenKimchi » Those NYT Archives added these pithy words on Sep 27 07 at 12:46 am[...] in a place links to notable moments in history. Commenter Sonagi at The Marmot’s Hole, ComingAnarchy, and Occidentalism have posted links to relevant articles about [...]
links for 2007-09-28 « Newsbong: Because News Matters, Kinda added these pithy words on Sep 28 07 at 8:28 am[...] Bring down this wall! at ComingAnarchy.com (tags: history newspapers) [...]
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