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Unless something terrible happens. Oh, Those don't sound like historic words.

I plan to make the change Tuesday unless something terrible happens.

But those words uttered on May 11th, 1981 at 9 a.m.

were the first recorded words on a use net forum.

Not the first words, but the earliest recorded words.

Usenet is the precursor to the World Wide Web.

The Internet is older than we might think.

And it evolved, existed in different forms in many places and wasn't universal.

There are folks trading something very much like email at MIT, MIT mailbox as early as 1965.

Leaving messages for each other and then picking them up from a mainframe computer.

The Community Memory Project of 1974 linked different neighborhoods of the San Francisco area together

where people could post notes, maybe an item for sale or something they were looking for and people could look them up

through dummy terminals, a record store, a branch of the San Francisco library, and a few other places.

It was 1974.

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