Bring down this wall!

Posted on 9/20/2007 by Younghusband

Jason “Kottke takes a sample”:http://www.kottke.org/07/09/gems-from-the-archive-of-the-new-york-times of content from behind the “recently abandoned”:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html 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”:http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DC1239F93BA15751C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
* “an early report of Lincoln’s assassination”:http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C00E0D91F30EE34BC4D52DFB266838E679FDE
* “report on Germans using mustard gas in WWI”:http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B00E0D9103BE03ABC4053DFBF66838C609EDE
* “confirmation of Einstein’s theory of gravity in 1919″:http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950DE7D61138EE32A2575AC0A9679D946896D6CF

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”:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ catch up.

About Younghusband

Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942) was a British explorer, army officer, military-political officer, and foreign correspondent born in India who led expeditions into Manchuria, Kashgar, and Tibet. He three times tried and failed to scale Mt. Everest and journeyed from China to India, crossing the Gobi desert and the Mustagh Pass (alt. c.19,000 ft/5,791 m) of the Karakoram mountain range in modern day Pakistan. Convinced of Russian designs on British interests in India, Younghusband proactively engaged in the nineteenth century spying and conflict over Central Asia between the British and the Russians known as the Great Game. "Younghusband" is a Canadian who has spent a number of years bouncing back and forth between his home country and Japan. Fluent in Japanese and English with experience in numerous other languages from Spanish to Georgian, Younghusband has travelled throughout Asia. He graduated with an MA from the War Studies Department at the Royal Military College of Canada, where he focussed on the Japanese oil industry and energy security issues. He has recently returned to Canada from Japan, and is working in the technology sector.
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