Looking at original text file form http://textfiles.com/history/c0dez.txt

   From: Dark Sorcerer
   Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:35:57 -0000
   Subject: Confessions of a C0dez Kid

Looking at http://textfiles.com/history/

   c0dez.txt ... 63056 ... (February 20, 2001)

Now looking at curl head "curl -I http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/cDc-0395.html"

   Last-Modified: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 07:20:54 GMT

So unless original author can verify, the publish date is February 20th, 2001 :-)

- Thank you HN-Mods for fixing the titles.

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