The most complete history of UseNet, an enormous news archive has been resurrected and indexed at <a href="http://www.google.com/grphp">Google Groups</a>. The <a href="http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html">announcement</a> mentions the historical aspects of this archive: <span class="quote"><q>We are compiling some especially memorable articles and threads in the timeline below. For example, read Tim Berners-Lee's announcement of what became the World Wide Web or Linus Torvalds' post about his "pet project".</q></span>