Fatals (noun)

[Chris Waigl]

Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>:

> The earliest "social" on Usenet appears to be Dec. 1, 1997:
>
>   http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.gothic/msg/7b9532167ebff9fd?hl=en&
>
>   I began noticing it much more recently than that.

I don't know a reliable method for extracting the earliest cite from
Usenet, but a thread titled "Why Does KUT Want My Social?" was started by
Miles Abernathy on Apr 29, 1994:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/austin.general/msg/32c2b199046184a9

Chris Waigl

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