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January 10, 2005
20 years of USENET
Google has announced a list of highlights for the past 20 years of USENET. Having indexed it all, finding such posts has become a kid's game. Given you know what to look for, of course.
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archiveannounce20.html
Some personal highlights:
First mention of Church of the SubGenius (1983) http://groups-beta.google.com/group/net.misc/msg/a76a83d6f2f51989
For C hackers: Tom Duff presents "Duff's Device" (1984) http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2748%40alice.UUCP
First BOFH post (1992) http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1992Jun10.091440.8536%40waikato.ac.nz
First mention of Britney Spears (1993) http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Rich_Koster.1vrk%40agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US
Douglas Adams' first post on alt.fan.douglas-adams (1993) http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=dna.1100140445A%40158.152.1.69
Posted by Costin Raiu at January 10, 2005 7:01 PM