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In a forum post from 2002, 7 years before Bitcoin was released, somebody posted something that sounds an awful lot like an early idea of Bitcoin ...

The comments in the screenshot claimed to be from 2002 are from gmail.com addresses. Gmail was launched April 2004.

the gmail.com comment is a reply, dated 2014. Later on in the thread, the original post, being replied to, is shown to be from 2002. Necrothread.

the screenshot you're referring to doesn't show any dates.