Internet History

Ahh the joy of graphics and HTML.
We all love it.
It has brought us pieces of history like Yahoo etc that have changed the face of the 'net.  
However, if we want to look @ most of the importent events in internet history, you will not be able to find them on the WWW.  The live in Usenet land.

Google has recently (Dec 11) put together a archive of 20 years of Usenet messages, which is the most complete to date, with over 700 MILLION messages archived.

Some jems I have found are:

Linus Torvalds announcement of Linux to comp.os.minux in 1991 can be found here.

The announcement of UUNET, the worlds first ISP can be found here.

The (ground breaking) accouncement of the WWW Project in 1991 (these days known as the 'net) can be found here.

There is just too many to list, first mention of Microsoft, first ever Usenet message.

History Deluxe.

To find out more take a visit over to groups.google.com

Cheers

But nothing about how Al Gore started it all, I'm offended.  :'(

[Keefe]

That is soo cool.  I just spent like and hour searching through those and reading stuff.


Ahh, the memories....

yeah, for those of us who have never experienced things like fidonet, usenet and all this pre-www. stuff it´s very funny and informative

[wizbones]

Along the same lines, here's a site that has archives of poeples sites dating back to 1996. I was amazed at some of the stuff I found.

Scary almost even

http://www.archive.org/ The WaybackMachine  

[Keefe]

I have used that before to get pages back that I have accidentally delete...he he he

I wonder how many freakin' servers they have running that crap.