Official Project Update #8
Apr. 1st, 2024 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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yahoogroupsHalfway done with sorting! I hope the second half goes quicker than the first.
These categories have been quite a wild jumble of mostly smaller categories that Yahoo created later. More Cultures & Community, more Regional, more Health & Wellness, more Music, more Entertainment & Arts, more Computers & Internet, more Science… and yes, more Schools & Education and Romance & Relationships. I've even run across a new language: Georgian!
As I sort, I'm reminded afresh of some of the reasons why this project is important. True, some groups, like the ones filling the Technical Support category (for long-obsolete devices and operating systems), are relics of another time and are largely useless to modern users. But others - such as the ones sharing tubes for Paint Shop Pro (which, as far as I can tell, can still use the old files) - may still be relevant to people today. Not to mention the sheer amount of creative work of all types that is preserved only in the messages and files of various groups.
Actual stats:
Now up to 50.01% sorted and 2.45% tagged.
Available tabs:
English: 2001
Spanish: 29
Portuguese: 16
Italian: 87
German: 3
French: 5
Chinese: 8
Indonesian/Malay: 88
Arabic: 39
Persian: 12
Turkish: 43
Romanian: 29
Unknown: 155
Spam: 26
Something fun:
Someone will surely find the group "lostcities" interesting:
These categories have been quite a wild jumble of mostly smaller categories that Yahoo created later. More Cultures & Community, more Regional, more Health & Wellness, more Music, more Entertainment & Arts, more Computers & Internet, more Science… and yes, more Schools & Education and Romance & Relationships. I've even run across a new language: Georgian!
As I sort, I'm reminded afresh of some of the reasons why this project is important. True, some groups, like the ones filling the Technical Support category (for long-obsolete devices and operating systems), are relics of another time and are largely useless to modern users. But others - such as the ones sharing tubes for Paint Shop Pro (which, as far as I can tell, can still use the old files) - may still be relevant to people today. Not to mention the sheer amount of creative work of all types that is preserved only in the messages and files of various groups.
Actual stats:
Now up to 50.01% sorted and 2.45% tagged.
Available tabs:
English: 2001
Spanish: 29
Portuguese: 16
Italian: 87
German: 3
French: 5
Chinese: 8
Indonesian/Malay: 88
Arabic: 39
Persian: 12
Turkish: 43
Romanian: 29
Unknown: 155
Spam: 26
Something fun:
Someone will surely find the group "lostcities" interesting:
This group explores the legends and reports of lost cities, lost continents, lost communities and lost peoples around the world, and highlights the real-life expeditions that have set out to find them.
Did Plato's Atlantis exist, and if so where was it? What happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished in the Amazon while searching for a lost city? Is it time for a revival of "lost race" novelists like Canada's James DeMille ("A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" - 1888) and America's William Starbuck Mayo ("Kaloolah, Or Journeyings to the Djebel Kumri" - 1849)?
The illustration at right is Maxfield Parrish's "City of Brass" (1909), a bookplate rendition of the Saharan lost city depicted in the Thousand and One Nights.
Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=247655422288
