For all you techy nerdlets... (that includes me...)

RAFALUTION

Here's a usenet archive from Google. You can find the first ever mention of MS-DOS.



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

Sherifu

A little bit of history

Goodshape

Early mentions of emoticons always get a smile out of me.

Because you can't see the person who is sending you electronic
mail you are sometimes uncertain whether they are serious or
joking. Recently, Scott Fahlman at CMU devised a scheme for
annotating one's messages to overcome this problem. If you turn
your head sideways to look at the three characters :-) they look
sort of like a smiling face. Thus, if someone sends you a
message that says "Have you stopped beating your wife?:-)" you
know they are joking. If they say "I need to talk to you :-(",
be prepared for trouble.

aidan_dunne

You've got to love this:

I wish Lucas & Co. would get the thing going a little faster.
I can't really imagine waiting until 1997 to see all nine parts
of the Star Wars series.

If only he knew back then.........!

Praetorian

That's a great link.