Freddie Mercury discussed in newsgroups in 1991

I thought I'd share this:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!search/freddie$20mercury|sort:date/alt.rock-n-roll.metal/Fief9NVX8Ww/plilUX-Q3EoJ

I'm sure many of you know that Google had bought many Usenet newsgroups, some of which went back to the late 1980s. I think they're quite a good way of reading what people thought about stuff happening around them at the time. I searched for some post on Freddie Mercury back in 1991. In the above post some guys are discussing, on 21 November 1991, if Queen will keep making music after Freddie died (he would die on 24 November, of course).

At the time the only people posting on those groups were people connected from universities... the internet was mostly made up of university/military computers connected together.

Anyway I think it's quite interesting.

Uuuummmm...no. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

Oh! I must say...I did copy and past the link...and it works...and is legit...it's just not originally Google. With that said...that is rather freaking amazing. How in the hell did you find that?! That's crazy. Certainly one of the oldest parts of the internet I've ever been to. Assuming it IS real, eh?

Thanks for posting.

Oh, the good old usenet days... I miss them so.

"I'm sure that Queen CD's will still be in print in 20 years (well, we may have a new recording medium, but they will be around). I cannot say that there will be a bunch of greatest hits packages or releases of previously unreleased tracks, but the recent re-issue of the Queen catalog on CD makes it seem that *someone* thinks they are propular and will be around." -Ken Goach Prophetic much? LOL

I liked the bit where someone tried to claim Queen are not mainstream.

Apparently, they never tried to pander to radio stations. I didn't know that.

Not entirely relevant, but the other day I read a thing on CERN restoring the world's first webpage at its original address. It appears here:

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Hard to believe that was 1993. A world without the internet feels more distant than that somehow.

Speaking of prophetic....


21-11-1991: #Gee, Dan. It's kinda hard for a band to make new music when their
#lead singer is dead. We'll see how much new music Queen comes up
#with if Freddie Mercury dies of AIDS or double pneumonia or
#whatever.

Thanks for this interesting thread!

Cool find

Thanks for that post. I have said recently that I wish I could go back in time to my 18-year-old self in 1991 and slap her around and say enjoy him while he is still here because he will mean so much to you in 20 years. The disrespectful way the one poster says he was dying makes me want to go back in time and slap him too. A few times.

[QUOTE] [b]shannaschaffer wrote:[/b]

Thanks for that post. I have said recently that I wish I could go back in time to my 18-year-old self in 1991 and slap her around and say enjoy him while he is still here because he will mean so much to you in 20 years. The disrespectful way the one poster says he was dying makes me want to go back in time and slap him too. A few times.[/QUOTE]

I want to go back to the 70's and slap Freddie for fucking around.

[QUOTE] [b]The Fairy King wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]shannaschaffer wrote:[/b]

Thanks for that post. I have said recently that I wish I could go back in time to my 18-year-old self in 1991 and slap her around and say enjoy him while he is still here because he will mean so much to you in 20 years. The disrespectful way the one poster says he was dying makes me want to go back in time and slap him too. A few times.[/QUOTE]

I want to go back to the 70's and slap Freddie for fucking around.
[/QUOTE]

No-one knew in the 70s. Don't say things like this please.

[QUOTE] [b]people on streets wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]The Fairy King wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]shannaschaffer wrote:[/b]

Thanks for that post. I have said recently that I wish I could go back in time to my 18-year-old self in 1991 and slap her around and say enjoy him while he is still here because he will mean so much to you in 20 years. The disrespectful way the one poster says he was dying makes me want to go back in time and slap him too. A few times.[/QUOTE]

I want to go back to the 70's and slap Freddie for fucking around.
[/QUOTE]

No-one knew in the 70s. Don't say things like this please.[/QUOTE]

We know now.. That's why i'm gonna go back and slap him.

Why slap him? Go back to the 80's with 600 boxes of Aids medicine and act out a Terminator style thing and tell him that on the day of 1st January 1985 he is to start taking them.