First time words appear online
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008From late 2004 to early March 2005, I was curious the first time certain words or phrases appeared online. I turned to the old Usenet archives and did my searches there, sorting my results chronologically and finding the earliest reference to each item. There is no logic to the terms I chose, but just whatever peaked my curiosity. Toward the end of the list you see “Year xxxx” in which I chose to search for that phrase instead of just the number of the year itself, which would have yielded random numbers.
I also went back recently and spot double-checked this list to see if anything had changed. The only change I found was that “September 11, 2001″ had been mentioned in a prediction in 2000, and that post has since completely disappeared. I don’t buy into conspiracy theories, but that sure would fuel the fire for those who do!