20 Year Usenet Timeline
by Esther Schindler
There's some really interesting stuff in Google's Usenet archive:
- Jul 1982 First mention of a compact disc
- Aug 1982 First mention of the Commodore 64
- Aug 1982 First mention of Apple's Lisa and Macintosh products
- Nov 1982 Early reference to emoticons
And lots more, of course. Though the omissions are almost as curious.
