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A writer researched the origin of the oft-cited line 'the only intuitive interface is the nipple, after that it's all learned,' commonly attributed to Bruce Ediger. Tracing Usenet archives, the earliest related idea appears in an August 1994 post by Scott Francis, with a closer wording posted by Jay Vollmer in January 1995, before Ediger began using and refining variants of the phrase from February through April 1995.
Usenet-Rewind is a newly launched search engine that lets users browse and query Usenet newsgroup archives spanning from 1981 to the present day. The site currently indexes more than 1 billion messages across tens of thousands of days, with search filters for subject, body text, author, message ID, newsgroup and date range, and it says it is still actively adding more content.
Mimic Systems advertised its Spartan peripheral for the Commodore 64 for nearly two years, using recurring magazine ads featuring a mime, before actually releasing the product in 1986. By the time it arrived, reviewers found its specs outdated and users reported persistent bugs and poor support.