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

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