Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bogworld

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The result of the debate was delete. —Xezbeth 19:41, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bogworld

Listed on speedy for vandalism by User:-Ril-, but vanity is not a speedy criteria. Listed here by me, but no vote. Article is about a webcomic that claims to be one of the oldest in the world, going back to the late 80s. Meelar (talk) 18:54, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

• No vote. I echo your sentiments. If the site and article can be validated as to their claims, it'd be an interesting article to see develop. But... since the early '80s? That really seems far-fetched to me. Did we even have the possibility for high-res graphics back then? Fishy... 216.158.31.195 19:02, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Strong delete, in the early 80s the Internet was reserved for companies and contained only text data. No way a webcomic was possible back then. Mgm|^(talk) 19:36, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
  • Exactly. I change to a strong delete for vanity and just ineptness. 216.158.31.195 20:13, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Anything of the sort from the late 80's / early 90's is most likely to have appeared or been mentioned on Usenet. Didn't find anything relevant at Google groups. (Note: I disagree with the assessment about Internet transmission of images at the time; technophiles of a certain age will have memories of UUencode/UUdecode). Alexa check of www.bogworld.com shows "not in top 100,000 sites". --Tabor 20:23, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • So maybe it was possible. But I doubt company bosses would allow image transmissions over the internet for personal use, right? Mgm|^(talk) 21:35, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
    • I don't know where you get the idea that the Internet was exclusively the province of private companies in those years. The backbone was run by universities under grant of the NSF--university faculty, staff, and students were much more prolific users of the medium. And yes, people used it for all sorts of questionable things. --Tabor 02:11, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep But re write. Bogworld was very early net art, and should be represented.
• A website that we are told existed since the "late 80s", thus pre-dating the invention of the World Wide Web in 1990 by several years. Delete. Uncle G 03:30, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)
• Delete unverifiable. JamesBurns 05:10, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete ~~~~ 17:12, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• delete "the web", as in the work from CERN, didn't exist in the 1980s. Mozzerati 18:07, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)

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