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Mac in red plastic jug conversion photos. No, I don't know why.
Google groups now has a full 20 years of usenet history on line. That's over 700 million messages. Aaron Swartz pointed to some fun old ones, like Tim Berners-Lee's first post and this first "executive summary" of the world wide web project. More links on Aaron's page.
update: Here's a timeline from google with many of these early interesting threads. Wow.