I mused: > > > > I find this an interesting question [Mike's cyborg question] because it > > raises the issue of how > > one could use Google (or any search engine) to limit a search to a > > particular, usually early, time period. I have often wanted to do this > > (e.g. for the notorious search for the iceberg analogy).
Mike P. replied: > > Although it might not be immediately obvious, this does not make > much sense because search engines for webpages would not extend > past 1991 which was the first year that the "World Wide Web" > (WWW)was released by Tim Berniers-Lee at CERN (see the internet > timeline: > http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ ). Yes, of course any webpage located with a search engine cannot exist earlier than the start of the world wide web. But among those gadzillions of web pages are many which provide documents which go back much earlier, many into the 1800s. A google search turns them up. The problem is to separate out in a particular search these early sources from being lost in the thousands of hits to later ones. The only way is to laboriously scan through them one by one, which is usually an overwhelming task. I've tried to find a better way, and failed. I thought that perhaps by mentioning it on TIPS, someone would have an idea. As for the wayback machine, that of course won't work either. And wayback on August 24, the question Mike asked us was "What is the first published use of the term cyborg and who used it?" Because I'm just a little grumpy about such matters, I point out that Peter Kepros first aced that question by providing a Wikipedia entry that Kline (with Clynes) used it in 1960. I followed up (again depending on good old Wikipedia) to point out that the OED has an even earlier source in the NY Times (still 1960, though). While it falls a tad short of Michael Phelps' achievement, I'd have to say we likely deserve at least silver and bronze on Mike's question. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
