Usenet News, is a threaded discussion application that started in 1980, long before today's Web-based threaded discussion forums. Usenet news groups circulated globally and covered many technical and non-technical topics.
Google has archived over 800 million Usenet posts in Google Groups. You can search through them here.
They have also pulled together a timeline listing important Internet-related posts from 1981 to 2001.
For example, this is the post where Tim Berners-Lee announced the Web and invited people to download the "very alpha" software and try it out.
The Usenet map shown here was made by Brian Reid in May, 1993. He estimated that around 87,000 sites with some 2.6 million users were exchanging Usenet news at that time.
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