[WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Wed Mar 4 19:56:19 UTC 2009


David Gerard wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7914828.stm
>
> It's an article on how wonderful it is that political movements are
> better documented in their formative stages these days ... but all I
> could think was what a pain it can be researching anything that
> happened before 1995.
>
> After the low-hanging fruit come those of us with books.
>
>   
But it was the BBC that threw out all those early episodes of "Dr. Who." 

It confuses me when access to British democracy depends on paying "only" 
$2.95 to an American supplier.  It makes me wonder how many of us have 
grasped the enormity of our task.

Ec



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