First .co.uk domain...

[devolution]

I've been researching this... And the earliest .co.uk reference I've found:

Initial Response to Internat - net.unix | Google Groups

Newsgroups: net.news.group, net.unix
From: [email protected] (Jim R Oldroyd)
Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 00:25:45 EST
Local: Sat, Oct 26 1985 10:25 pm
Subject: Initial Response to Internat

++ [email protected]

 

[mat]

1 month before I was even born!!!

 

[stevebrowne]

that got me thinking - I searched for my first usenet post that google has indexed: Jan 7 1992. I was using usenet about 3 years before that, but can't find any indexed messages.