Sherman, set the Wayback Machine
One of the neater things to come out of Google’s acquistion of the DejaNews USENET archives is this list of USENET highlights, including the first mention of Star Wars Episode 6, the first thread about AIDS, and CERN’s announcement of the World Wide Web project.
They even have a record of the first big-time spam on USENET, by the “infamous ‘green card lawyers’” (AKA “those fucking idiots who sounded the death knell for USENET’s usefulness).
Lots of really neat things from a time eons ago in “internet time.” Check it out!
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