[luau] FW: Google's Usenet history

R. Scott Belford sctinc at flex.com
Fri Apr 19 13:28:00 PDT 2002


Great link, Paul, thanks.

scott

On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 06:57  AM, Taylor Cody Civ SAIC/PETS wrote:

>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howell Paul E SrA 72 CS/SCBN [mailto:Paul.Howell at tinker.af.mil]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:02 AM
> To: Taylor Cody Civ SAIC/PETS; Thompson Timothy N SrA 72 CS/SCBN; 'J65 
> TBMCS Sys Admin 20'
> Subject: Google's Usenet history
>
> Google now has an archive of Usenet messages dating back to 1981...one 
> of the most complete.  They have a timeline you can view and read 
> messages, like the first one mentioning Microsoft, or the first review 
> of an IBM PC.  This link I'm adding at the bottom is a neat one to 
> read, it's from a hacker in Finland who's name is Linus and he has a 
> new operating system he's building.  This is his first announcement of 
> it, and he's trying to recruit hackers to help him get it up and 
> running.  One day this will be Linux as we know it.
>  
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1991Oct5.054106.4647%40klaava.Helsinki.
> FI
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