From: "PC Paul" 
Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe uk.finance uk.rec.driving
Subject: Re: Motorists hit by card clone scam
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:21:58 GMT

tim..... wrote:
> "Tim"  wrote in message
> news:S-idnQ7MEsILHLbbRVnyvwA@bt.com...
>>> Graham Murray wrote
>>> ... The IBM PC was launched in 1981,
>>> 26 years ago. Windows was later than that,
>>>
>> "Magda" wrote
>>> 1992, I think.
>>
>> Don't be silly! - Win3.1 was already out by then.
>> Windows v1 was out in the '80s...
>
> But OE wasn't
>
> I worked on Windows 2 apps in 1990.
>
> They were very basic and few people actually
> had machines which could run them.
>
> I was first introduced to usenet in Sept 1993. The
> people that I worked with read messages with
> a command line interface.  I though that this
> was much too fiddly and didn't bother

Google Groups archive (which used to belong to DejaNews) has messages back 
to (at least) May 1981 when there were already quite a wide variety of 
groups on Usenet.

Byte magazine had an article on the 'upcoming' Windows 1.0 in December 1983. 
I *believe* Windows 1.0 was in 1985.

Point'n'drool interfaces took a while to take off - and there was a thriving 
community well before that.

The higher intellectual cost-of-entry acted as a useful limit to who managed 
to get on there.

No offence ;-)