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The first appearance of "poop" on the InternetPosted 06.11.2004 by Dave
Some of you may know that Google has archives of online newsgroup posts dating back to 1981. That's '81, as in the year Reagan was inaugurated. While the Internet technically dates back to the 60s, it wasn't really in common use until the mid 90s. So anything that happened on the Internet in the 80s was pretty much groundbreaking.
Using the Advanced Groups Search, you can restrict your search to the early 80s and find neat things. Like, say, the first incidence we can find of people talking about poop. The first known use of the world "poop" on the Internet -- March 25, 1982. The context: not about feces. "Say, Mark, what's the straight poop on SYSWIDE in readr.c?" Most appearances of "poop" came like that -- in the context of asking for "the straight poop." It wasn't until August 21, 1983 when we saw "poop" in reference to feces. Cat feces. "We have a 2 year old neutered indoor cat that prefers to poop in the tub than in his litter." Dog poop made its first appearance a month later, on September 29. January 18, 1984, gave us poop's first appearance as an insult. But talk of human poop? As near as I can tell, not until 1989. We had a a young kid bothering his dad or something on July 28, and talk of changing a diaper in a movie theater on August 4 of that year. But it wasn't until November 26, 1990, when someone actually mentioned their own poop on the Internet. The dubious honor goes to one Tom Reingold, who talked about his own feces while relating his technique for toilet training his daughter. "The thing I do which is a little hard but necessary is to let her see my "poop" in the toilet before I flush." Does that mean that, until the 1990s, the Internet was a more civilized place? Or was it just overly puritanical? I don't know. But I do know this: Tom Reingold is a pioneer. Unfortunately, Google doesn't have any more postings from him (at least, not using that email address) since after 1992. Can someone track him down? Show some poop support, or make a poop retort.
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