Moth3r wrote: NZBs were devised late 2004 - article here.
It's possibly even earlier, maybe even 2002. Found some mentions in late 2003, and one from Jan, 2003. Seems there was newzbin (.NZB) and binnews (.BNS) similar indexing idea, challenging each other.
The ReScene folks at least note when their developments happen, v1=2008, I guess because of the newzbin lawsuits that .nzb info is gone. Can't find any mentions on groups.google either... reTarTed