20 Years of Usenet

Gary “Unblinking” Stock points out (as does Doc) that Google has put up a page of historic messages to Usenet. There are links to the first mention of Microsoft (June, ’81), the first mention of a Commodore 64 (Aug., ’82), the first thread about AIDS (Dec., ’82), Stallman’s announcement of GNU (Sept. ’83). This is great marketing by Google, letting us know that the site now has indexed 20 years of Usenet.

All hail Google the Good.

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