I think Carmack popularized their use at the time. A bunch of news sites started tracking them. Blue's News still has an archive from back then: https://www.bl

I think Carmack popularized their use at the time. A bunch of news sites started tracking them. Blue's News still has an archive from back then: https://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/summary.pl https://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/summary.pl Click on a company, a person and then use the drop down to view older entries.