Archive for January 17th, 2005

20 Years of Usenet

Before the web, there was usenet. Take a walk down memory lane with Google’s 20 Year Usenet Timeline. The timeline is posted in honor of 20 years worth of newsgroup archives available at Google. Here are a few highlights:

Aug 1982 First mention of the Commodore 64
Aug 1982 First mention of Apple’s Lisa and Macintosh products
Nov 1983 First mention of Microsoft Windows
Sep 1989 First mention of The Simpsons
Aug 1991 Tim Berners-Lee’s announcement of the World Wide Web project
Oct 1991 Linus Torvalds’ Linux announcement

Watching the Clock

news.com points to an excellent time waster: The Human Clock does not convey the current time with simple digits or archaic hands but with pictures. Watching the minutes tick by on this site is at least as exciting as watching television, check it out.