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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/webcrawler, etc... Although, it seems like something like this is probably already out there (?)

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In this very thread, three hours before you posted:

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624657)

But there are bound to be many more really interesting bits buried in Usenet.

Derp, I saw that but stopped reading because I was familiar with the jwz post about old browsers. Thanks for pointing it out.

Here's Python being announced:

(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/ab535315595a...)

and also

(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/0728382f2...)

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

> "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!

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

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.

Probably some phpBB somewhere. There are things that start out as a labor of love and a "look at this thing I made" post.

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