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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. Microsoft promises by deander2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I find it interesting that the very first mention of Microsoft talks about what they've promised in a future release of their software. :-)

    additionally, they are
    going to add a fair amount of hardware error recovery (bad block
    handling, parity and power fail interrupts, etc.), as well as record
    handling, shared data segments, synchronous writing, improved
    interprocess communications, networking, and languages: Pascal, BASIC,
    FORTRAN, and COBOL.

    Wow, if they add all that, it sounds like it would be just what their customer needs!

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  2. SPISPOPD by shogun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oi the first mention about SPISPOPD (Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris) in comp.sys.pc.games.action isn't listed! For any old school gamers its a significant event. I've been searching the google archive lately for it though, and can't actually find the first post about it, anyone out there had any luck?