Google has opened up their full usenet archive. dating back to 1981, or some ungodly year like that.
i googled.
i found my first post to usenet.
ever.
i fear.
naturally, it was a clueless me-too post.
far spookier was digging up threads in which i met people for the first time who are now old friends… or crossed paths with individuals i would only get to know years later. even infamous rec.music.christian threads that spawned in-jokes in use to this day.
sigh. what a potent, potent drug, usenet archives…