Gecko Bloggle

This link will take you to Google’s 20 year archive of the Newgroups (UUNET).

Starts with the earliest post they’ve got (looks like it worked slightly before they thought it would):

Rusty is right (or is that “Rusty is Wright”?) – we have ALL in our .ngfile
so I tend to forget this. ALL.ALL may or may not work, but ALL certainly does.

and ends at the first posts about 9-11 (at 5:51am):

Plane crashed into World Trade Center near the top

I think my personal timeline kicks in around 1990, ’cause I remember reading about this on some of the FidoNet feeds on BBSs (thanks to Heart of Gold II bbs, Hi Alex!)