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80s Usenet (newsgroups) - first cultural references
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The transfer of the Newsgroup (Usenet) archives from DejaNews to Google Groups has meant that many posts from the 80s are visible again. Now is your chance to look back in time and relive the Internet of the 80s. Thanks to Google Groups you can see the first posts of topics covering Microsoft, Madonna, the Commodore 64 and more. Here are highlights to get you started (message will open in a new window):
May 1981 First mention of Microsoft
Jun 1981 First mention of Microsoft MS-DOS
Aug 1981 First review of the IBM-PC
Mar 1982 First mention of MTV
Apr 1982 First mention of Sun Microsystems
Jun 1982 First mention of Star Wars Episode 6 (Return of the Jedi)
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
Dec 1982 Announcement of first cell phone deployment in Chicago
Dec 1982 First thread about AIDS
Feb 1983 First "Me too" post
Feb 1983 First mention of a Fax machine
Jul 1983 First mention of Madonna
Nov 1983 First mention of Microsoft Windows
Jan 1984 First reference to Apple's Super Bowl commercial
Aug 1984 First mention of the Commodore Amiga
Apr 1985 First discussion about 'New Coke'
Jan 1986 First mention of the Challenger tragedy
May 1986 First thread about the Chernobyl meltdown
Jun 1989 First post about Tiananmen Square massacre
Jun 1989 Brad Templeton announces ClariNet - the first "dot com"
Sep 1989 First mention of The Simpsons
Nov 1989 First post from Berlin after the wall came down
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