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Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:55 pm
Skye says...



Okay, in our New York Times this morning, there was a section that said any person who has NYT delivered to their house can access every single article published online sine 1851.

Does anyone else think this is seriously one of the most amazing things ever? I've been browsing through it all morning and I can't get enough!

This has made my day. :D
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Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:14 pm
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Sounds pretty cool.

I wish I could see em.
  





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Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:25 pm
LamaLama says...



You don't have to get the NYT for that. You can just sign up for a free account on their website. Or, better yet, use a thow away account from bugmenot.com

It would be more spectacular if the times wasn't so slanted to the left that the words fell off.
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:14 pm
Nate says...



That's why the Internet rocks th hiz-house!

But this is even cooler, the Royal Society has decided to publish online all articles from their journals back to 1665. It's amazing since it includes articles from people like Newton. I've browsed through it a couple of times already and there's some cool stuff in there.

It's at:
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1373

It's free until sometime in December.
  





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Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:04 pm
LamaLama says...



That does rock this hiz-house, my good chimp.

How does one access these articles/and or browse them?
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:35 am
Skye says...



LamaLama - Just go to nytimes.com, and if you get the paper delivered to your house you can probably already search the archives.

Nate - Sweet link!! I'll definitely be perusing that one for a while! :)
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:45 am
Areida says...



That's pretty cool, though I'm not a fan of the New York Times.

Now if I could get onto the Wall Street Journal website... *ponders* I'll have to look into that.
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:31 am
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Skye- I wasn't referring to the NYTimes, I was referring to the link Nate gave us. As you will see, I already know HOW to browse the NYTimes, and I could care less.
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