Social Media & Online Communities · Recorded milestone
Usenet newsgroups
Recorded year1980
Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis's Usenet links university computers into worldwide discussion groups on every topic.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.