1983, 5 years before I was born, I never thought the internet as we know it existed before '92 but now I find out not only did it exist but there were forums discussing the OT back then!
I would like to see what these Usenet forums looked like and what people were discussing in forums about the OT before it was even complete. Do you people know anymore about this? On the official site back in I think it was '01 they did an april fools joke where for the day they had a retro 1980 official site webpage showing news and discussion of the ESB in the making and the next day they said it was fake and the internet didn't exist back then. But I guess they were wrong. I assume this Usenet was very primative by today's standard and you could only send text form one computer to another and there was no fancy forum GUI and such.