Internet Persistence - An Example

Still around, after nearly 7 years!

... this post to a newsgroup. I found out about it while doing some "ego-Googling" for different variations of my name, since it is so common. I searched for "Daniel A. Johnson, Jr." with the quotation marks so that it would turn up all occurrences of my full signature name, and it found a link on PHOAKS (People Helping One Another Know Stuff), which contains this post to the sci.chem.coatings newsgroups from way back in 1996:

Subject: Re: help: where can I find manufacturer info?
From: "Daniel A. Johnson, Jr."
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:40:55 -0800
Newsgroups: sci.chem.coatings

I recommend that your friend look at the following Web pages:

THOMAS REGISTER
http://www.thomasregister.com


CAGE- COATING ALTERNATIVE GUIDE
http://clean.rti.org/cage

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Environmental Engineer
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It's funny how things can persist on the Internet.