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[eddie5659]

Hiya

Not gonna be a long one this, but I found this:

http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

Now that google is fully archived all the newsgroups for the past 20 years, you can see some interesting stuff. Well, I found it interesting

For instance, first mention of Microsoft:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=anews.Aunc.850

and it goes on.

Anyway, there you go.

Ta ta

eddie

 

[RT]

So, can we say that the home computer revolution began about May of '81?
(That's 1981 if this ever gets archived )

I read or heard something recently, forgot the details so this could be incorrect:
about the very first webpage...had three lines of text and no links -

Welcome to the WWW!

 

[Toddles18]

RT, If it was the very first page, what would you expect it to link to?


I saw that link a while ago and checked it out, was pretty cool, lots of interesting stuff to check out some time when I'm bored and not in these Random Discussions, anyways the one I did check out was "Linus Torvalds' Linux announcement" The first time he talked about Creating the Open source wonder we all know as Linux. Was pretty interesting, a little before my time so I didn't really know what they were talking about, (I think I was in 5th grade that year) but very interesting none the less.

 

[RT]

Hey , maybe those three lines were like really really important, like the meaning of life or something.
If so, I guess most of us missed it!

Kind of a "had to be there" thing.

So who was going to sign up for a connection that wasn't there until the first page was put up?????

 

[Toddles18]

Darn, the one chance I had to find out the meaning of life too......

Good point about signing up for the connection, kinda like who's going to buy a tv if there's no stations that brodcast to it.