Difference between revisions of "Yahoo! Speed Solving Rubik's Cube Group"

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*2000 June 18: Chris Hardwick posts the first message to the group.
 
*2000 June 18: Chris Hardwick posts the first message to the group.
 
*2002 March 26: In a site-wide reorganisation Yahoo! deletes 20 months worth of messages (from 2000 August 4).
 
*2002 March 26: In a site-wide reorganisation Yahoo! deletes 20 months worth of messages (from 2000 August 4).
*2005 December: Peak activity - 1342 messages are posted in the course of one month.
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*2005 December: Peak activity—1342 messages are posted in the course of one month.
 
*2007 October 6: the first day since 2000 the Yahoo! group had no post.
 
*2007 October 6: the first day since 2000 the Yahoo! group had no post.
 
*2011 December 2: Last message is posted to the group.
 
*2011 December 2: Last message is posted to the group.
*2019 December 14: Yahoo! "permanently" deletes all posted content from its Groups, wiping out 11 years of speedcubing history.
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*2019 December 14: Yahoo! "permanently" deletes all posted content from its Groups.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
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== External links==
 
== External links==
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/speedsolvingrubikscube/info Yahoo! Speed Solving Rubik's Cube Group]
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* [http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/speedsolvingrubikscube/info Yahoo! Speed Solving Rubik's Cube Group] - now defunct
* Speedsolving.com: [http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?22111-Yahoo!-Speedcubing-Group-s-10th-anniversary Yahoo! Speedcubing Group's 10th anniversary]
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*Archive of the [https://archive.org/details/speedsolvingrubikscube "Speed Solving Rubik's Cube" Yahoo! Group] - Uploaded to the Internet Archive by megaminxwin on December 27, 2015
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* Speedsolving.com: [http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?22111-Yahoo!-Speedcubing-Group-s-10th-anniversary Yahoo! Speedcubing Group's 10th anniversary], post by Chris Hardwick
  
 
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Latest revision as of 16:38, 27 January 2020

The Yahoo! Speed Solving Rubik's Cube Group is a Yahoo! group and a forum created by Chris Hardwick on 18 June 2000. It was the main site for online communication among speedcubers until 2007, when it was eclipsed by the Speedsolving Forums.

Timeline

  • 2000 June 18: Chris Hardwick posts the first message to the group.
  • 2002 March 26: In a site-wide reorganisation Yahoo! deletes 20 months worth of messages (from 2000 August 4).
  • 2005 December: Peak activity—1342 messages are posted in the course of one month.
  • 2007 October 6: the first day since 2000 the Yahoo! group had no post.
  • 2011 December 2: Last message is posted to the group.
  • 2019 December 14: Yahoo! "permanently" deletes all posted content from its Groups.

See also

External links