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Great points in Usenet history

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wasn't-it-cool-when dept.

no_nicks_available writes "An article on The Register points to some of the highlights of Usenet history. " First mention of Microsoft, GNU, Madonna, the Compact Disc, and more. It's worth a look if only to read the first kibo post to alt.religion.kibology.

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  1. Duh! by mwalker · · Score: 4, Informative

    But they forgot the most important one!

    first post to mention Slashdot.

    First post to mention Slashdot.org

    The fools!

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  2. Re:Star Wars - Episode 6 by emerson · · Score: 5, Informative

    That address almost assuredly -doesn't- work these days, but since that's Randal L. Schwartz of Perl fame and Intel-prosecution infamy, I'm guessing you can track him down pretty easily....

  3. Re:Andy vs Linus by joshsisk · · Score: 2, Informative

    Even better is his comment right below that, if Linus were his student, he'd have given LINUX a poor grade.

    And, yes, I know the parent is redundant. Sorry.

  4. Re:Should USENET be considered as historic value? by KingSchlong · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try here.

  5. Re:Kibo? by halk · · Score: 2, Informative

    All is cleared by reading the FAQ.

  6. Re:SPISPOPD by FFFish · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is this it?

    Try this, too.

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  7. Kibology by stox · · Score: 4, Informative

    Kibology predates alt.religion.kibology by quite some time. Find the first postings to alt.religion.subgenius, for a true beginning. James "Kibo" Perry was quite a presence back then, along with the legendary Henry Spencer from utzoo.

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  8. Re:Linux versions by zmooc · · Score: 2, Informative

    Had Linux chosen the same version-numbering-system as Windows, it would even have been at 4.x. Instead Linux chose to do 1.0->1.2->2.0->2.2.

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  9. Re:So, Have you stopped beating your wife? by Kidder · · Score: 2, Informative

    That was Despair, Inc., who trademarked the frowny face :-( for greeting cards, calendars, etc. You can find some (humorous) details here.

  10. Re:An Excellent Resource by Plutor · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nice troll, that's not the link to the first Slashdot mention of Google. If the moderators would pay attention and do their job, they'd notice its something completely different.

    This is the link you're looking for.

  11. Re:RMS on GNU... where have we gone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative
    In particular, we plan to have longer filenames [heh], file version numbers [does any modern filesystem do this?],

    Well, the file system of VMS (That's an OS, just barely younger than Unix, but with a much more old-fashioned/obsolete image) has done file version numbers for ages, and still does.

    Funny thing, though: It's called "OpenVMS Record Management Services (RMS)"

    I kid you not.

    I don't know if RMS qualifies as a modern file system, though.

    BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
  12. Re:Star Wars - Episode 6 by merlyn · · Score: 5, Informative
    Not that email address. But yes, at least a dozen people have already written me with comments.

    I don't find that post as interesting as a slightly earlier post I made, which I claim is the first announcement on Usenet of a remotely exploitable security hole.

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