OT: flashbacks from nntp

[David Kramer]

Your past is your future.

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 Tim Berners-Lee's announcement of what
became the World Wide Web or Linus Torvalds' first post about his "pet
project".


http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html


My personal favorite:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1992Jun10.091440.8536%40waikato.ac.nz