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Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 9, 2005 @05:53PM from the immemorial dept.

theRG writes "Google just released its 20-Year Usenet Timeline. Among the highlights: First Mac rumor, first 'me too' post, Tim Berners-Lee's announcement of the Web, and Linus' announcement of Linux."

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Just Released???? by Jack+Porter · 2005-01-09 18:07 · Score: 4, Informative

It's been over 3 years since this page went up!

From the linked page:

11 Dec 2001 Google offers 20-year Usenet Archive
Re:Broken link by piquadratCH · 2005-01-09 18:25 · Score: 4, Informative

You can find it here
Re:This has been around for a while... by TrevorB · 2005-01-09 18:45 · Score: 4, Informative

And even then, it was old news.

The last item on the list behind the link:

11 Dec 2001 Google offers 20-year Usenet Archive

Which makes this story not only a dupe, but 3 years old as well...

If we keep this up we'll start seeing dupe John Katz posts any time now.