> 20 Year Usenet Archive Now Available
>
> New! Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives
> into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 700 million
> messages dating back to 1981. We believe this to be the most complete
> collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating
> first-hand historical account.
>
> We are compiling some especially memorable articles and threads in the
> timeline below. For example, read [3]Tim Berners-Lee's announcement of
> what became the World Wide Web or [4]Linus Torvalds' first post about
> his "pet project". If you come across other noteworthy posts while
> searching the archive, please forward them to us at
> [5][email protected]. Please note that while your own first
> post was undoubtedly of great personal historical value, we will only
> be able to include submissions of interest to a wide range of users.
>
> Thanks, and enjoy your trip back to the golden age of Usenet.
>
>
> ----- 12 May 1981 [6]Oldest usenet article in the Google Groups Archive
> |
> -------- May 1981 [7]First mention of Microsoft
> |
> -------- Jun 1981 [8]First mention of Microsoft MS-DOS
> |
> -------- Aug 1981 [9]First review of the IBM-PC
> |
> -------- Oct 1981 [10]TCP/IP Digest #1
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> -------- Jun 1982 [11]First mention of Star Wars Episode 6
> |
> -------- Jul 1982 [12]First mention of a compact disc
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> -------- Aug 1982 [13]First mention of the Commodore 64
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> -------- Aug 1982 [14]First mention of Apple's Lisa and Macintosh products
> |
> -------- Nov 1982 [15]Early reference to emoticons
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> -------- Dec 1982 [16]First thread about AIDS
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> -------- Jul 1983 [17]First mention of Madonna
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> -------- Sep 1983 [18]Stallman's announcement of GNU
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> -------- Nov 1983 [19]First mention of Microsoft Windows
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> -------- Jan 1984 [20]First reference to Apple's Super Bowl commercial
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> -------- Apr 1984 [21]The kremvax hoax
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> -------- Aug 1984 [22]First mention of the Commodore Amiga
> |
> -------- Jan 1986 [23]First mention of the Challenger tragedy
> |
> -------- Feb 1986 [24]First mention of the MIR space station
> |
> -------- Sep 1986 [25]Gene Spafford's comments on [26]the Great Renaming
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> -------- Mar 1988 [27]First mention of the term 'search engine'
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> -------- Nov 1988 [28]The first warning about the Morris Internet Worm
> |
> -------- Nov 1988 [29]Gene Spafford's analysis of how the Internet Worm worked
> |
> -------- Feb 1989 [30]First mention of Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
> |
> -------- Mar 1989 [31]First discussion of cold fusion
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> -------- Sep 1989 [32]First mention of AOL
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> -------- Oct 1989 [33]First post in alt.hypertext
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> -------- Nov 1989 [34]First post from Berlin after the wall came down
> |
> -------- Jul 1991 [35]The kremvax exists!
> |
> -------- Aug 1991 [36]C.E.R.N.'s Announcement of the World Wide Web project
> |
> -------- Sep 1991 [37]Announcement of Internet Gopher
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> -------- Oct 1991 [38]Linus Torvalds' Linux announcement
> |
> -------- Dec 1991 [39]First post to alt.religion.kibology by [40]Kibo
> |
> -------- Jan 1992 [41]The famous Linux debate between Andy Tanenbaum and Linus
> Torvalds
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> -------- May 1992 [42]First Usenet post from an AOL account
> |
> -------- Jun 1992 [43]First BOFH post
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> -------- Mar 1993 [44]Marc Andreessen's Mosaic announcement
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> -------- Apr 1993 [45]Gene Spafford's farewell post
> |
> -------- Apr 1994 [46]First mass spamming (Green Card spam)
> |
> -------- Jun 1994 [47]Announcement of the WebCrawler launch
> |
> -------- Oct 1994 [48]Marc Andreessen's Netscape announcement
> |
> -------- Dec 1994 [49]Early mentions of Yahoo! and Lycos before they were compa
> nies
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> -------- May 1995 [50]First mention of DejaNews
> |
> -------- Dec 1995 [51]Announcement of the AltaVista launch
> |
> -------- Mar 1998 [52]First mention of Google
> |
> -------- May 1998 [53]First mention of Mac OSX
> |
> -------- Feb 2001 [54]Google acquires Deja archive
> |
> ----- 11 Dec 2001 Google offers 20-year Usenet Archive
>
> The offering of the complete archive was made possible with the help
> of the following people: [55]J�rgen Christoffel, [56]Bruce Jones,
> [57]Kent Landfield, [58]Henry Spencer, [59]David Wiseman.
>
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