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Some intrepid blogger ought to do a round-up of all the seminal Usenet posts like this. Thinking of Linus announcing Linux, Larry announcing his pagerank/webcra

Some intrepid blogger ought to do a round-up of all the seminal Usenet posts like this. Thinking of Linus announcing Linux, Larry announcing his pagerank/webcrawler, etc... Although, it seems like something like this is probably already out there (?)

jaylevitt 15y ago
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
- steve-howard 15y ago
  > "I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts of the Star Wars series." - azure!randals, June 1982 Well worth the read, thanks!
jonny_eh 15y ago
Where are the seminal annoucements being made today? HN? Reddit? It can't still be Usenet, right?
- Splines 15y ago
  Probably some phpBB somewhere. There are things that start out as a labor of love and a "look at this thing I made" post.
- untog 15y ago
  A while ago, someone linked to the HN post entitled "My weekend project called Quora", or something to that effect. Was very interesting to see.
DanBC 15y ago
In this very thread, three hours before you posted: (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624657 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624657) But there are bound to be many more really interesting bits buried in Usenet.
- spinchange 15y ago
  Derp, I saw that but stopped reading because I was familiar with the jwz post about old browsers. Thanks for pointing it out.
  - DanBC 15y ago
    Here's Python being announced: (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sgi/msg/22662b06471e2437 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sgi/msg/22662b06471e...) Here's Ruby sort of being announced: (http://groups.google.com/group/fj.comp.oops/msg/ab535315595a8e6f http://groups.google.com/group/fj.comp.oops/msg/ab535315595a...) and also (http://groups.google.com/group/fj.sources/msg/8e2cc97e3750fb86 http://groups.google.com/group/fj.sources/msg/8e2cc97e3750fb...) (The other six of those are still there) I think, but I could be wrong, that this is the first mention of a Nintendo Gameboy: (http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.video/msg/0728382f209c8a9c http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.video/msg/0728382f2...)

jaylevitt 15y ago

http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

steve-howard 15y ago
> "I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts of the Star Wars series." - azure!randals, June 1982 Well worth the read, thanks!

jonny_eh 15y ago

Where are the seminal annoucements being made today? HN? Reddit? It can't still be Usenet, right?

Splines 15y ago
Probably some phpBB somewhere. There are things that start out as a labor of love and a "look at this thing I made" post.
untog 15y ago
A while ago, someone linked to the HN post entitled "My weekend project called Quora", or something to that effect. Was very interesting to see.

DanBC 15y ago

In this very thread, three hours before you posted: (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624657 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624657) But there are bound to be many more really interesting bits buried in Usenet.

spinchange 15y ago
Derp, I saw that but stopped reading because I was familiar with the jwz post about old browsers. Thanks for pointing it out.
- DanBC 15y ago
  Here's Python being announced: (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sgi/msg/22662b06471e2437 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sgi/msg/22662b06471e...) Here's Ruby sort of being announced: (http://groups.google.com/group/fj.comp.oops/msg/ab535315595a8e6f http://groups.google.com/group/fj.comp.oops/msg/ab535315595a...) and also (http://groups.google.com/group/fj.sources/msg/8e2cc97e3750fb86 http://groups.google.com/group/fj.sources/msg/8e2cc97e3750fb...) (The other six of those are still there) I think, but I could be wrong, that this is the first mention of a Nintendo Gameboy: (http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.video/msg/0728382f209c8a9c http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.video/msg/0728382f2...)