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Usenet history: the first "worst episode ever" post

• deleted 16y ago
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• thought_alarm 16y ago
  How did you find this? Google's Usenet search has been horribly broken for years. It's criminal how they've let their Usenet archives rot away.
• jrockway 16y ago
  Worst Usenet post ever. (The thread is pretty good, actually. If you read a few posts up where they discuss Steamboat Itchy, you can see that people were even more clueless about copyright in 1992 than they are now.)
• eel 16y ago
  What's the significance of this? (Serious question - I'm not a Usenet user and I'm not too much older than this post.)
  • duskwuff 16y ago
    It's the first recorded online instance of the "worst * ever" meme, which ended up making its way back into The Simpsons by way of the Comic Book Guy.