[WEB4LIB] The first document on the Internet

[Fazia Begum Rizvi]

At 11:44 AM -0800 11/17/99, Hanan Cohen wrote:
>Hi
>
>I was curiouse to see what is the first document on the internet
>available to us today.
>
>I have searched DejaNews and found that the first posting they have are
>from March 16th, 1995.
>
>Can anyone find earlier documents ?

DejaNews only started archiving posts to USENET (the newsgroup 
portion of the Internet) in 1995. I myself was posting messages to 
USENET back in 1989 - but those are unavailable through DejaNews.

Sean already pointed you at what may be the earlier internet 
documents that are still available today. If there are gopher sites 
still existing, they'd likely contain even older documents. Old and 
still existing FTP sites may have some older documents as well.

-Faz

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