Everything and Nothing

“Hello World” , where did that originate anyway? I think it was the first ‘program‘, we wrote in VB, C, C++, PERL…. PHP (here), Java, J script, and on and on. I wonder if searching Google/groups, AKA, the old ‘Deja-News’ archives, would bring you back “the original” [HELLO WORLD] Usenet post…

I remember being able to pull back any thread with a reference ID on Usenet, “Deja” becoming “Google”, then, for awhile unless your NNTP server had some hardcore retention, the old archives were just, “GONE”, which pissed off ALLOT of people. Then, just as suddenly, it seemed they ‘reappeared‘, you could go to Google/Groups, and find all the stuff from WAY back to the ‘Empire of Meow‘,<— [when I'm feeling less lazy, I'll link that up with the original MEOW/Matt Bruce/ alt.fan.Karl-Malden.nose story] days. How much further do the archives go back, hmmmm. All the way back to the first newsgroups? Interesting thought, I mean it would be pretty interesting to see the creation of Usenet, ISTR someone pulling back the original AFKMN control message…heh, whoops , amazing how I start slipping back into the ‘lingo’, when I start reminiscing ’bout the old Usenet days…….