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how to find the oldest (=original) file on the Internet?

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Curt:
Many times I have wondered how on earth law enforcements etcetera can manage to prove originality of files on the Internet. Not because I have any special interest in the official side of the subject, but (among other reasons) because I have a picture that I am convinced is a forgery - and I don't know how to find the OLDEST version on the 'net, to prove my suspicion right. I don't think it is enough to have a "wayback" version.

Furthermore I think the subject itself is very important. Google (and the other search providers as well) will always offer to order search results > Newest or > Most Popular, etcetera, but never in accordance with OLDEST / ORIGINAL, , so we are always left with the maybe_re-edited version; the maybe_a_lie! Perhaps pro' searchers can make a search engine order the search results the trustworthy way, but I can't. Can you? Is Google even able to search for the oldest file?
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KynloStephen66515:
I know the oldest DOMAIN NAME on the internet is http://symbolics.com/ but thats about it when it comes to this issue lol.

kunkel321:
Didn't the internet start at some university?  That would be the 'original' stuff, I imagine...

AndyM:
Didn't the internet start at some university?  That would be the 'original' stuff, I imagine...
-kunkel321 (March 25, 2012, 07:50 PM)
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It started with ARPANET.  From Wikipedia:
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet. The network was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense for use by its projects at universities and research laboratories in the US. The packet switching of the ARPANET was based on designs by Lawrence Roberts of the Lincoln Laboratory.[1]
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So the oldest file might be something military.

Renegade:


So the oldest file might be something military.
-AndyM (March 25, 2012, 10:10 PM)
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I would have guessed pron... :-)

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