Google used to have a timeline showing key points in Usenet history. The first mention of Madonna. The first reference to AIDS. The first mention of the Gulf wa

Google used to have a timeline showing key points in Usenet history. The first mention of Madonna. The first reference to AIDS. The first mention of the Gulf war. There were articles in Wired on how they recovered this stuff from long-lost tapes. This was such an important piece of internet history and they just abandoned it.